Which are you drinking? The water or the wave?

Do you know that every great thing in the history of art and every beautiful thing in life is actually what you call nasty or has been caused by feelings that you would call nasty? By passion, by love, by hatred, by truth. Do you know that?

Edith Sitwell's interest in art was largely confined to portraits of herself.

The supposed great misery of our century is the lack of time.

The human race is unimportant. It is the self that must not be betrayed.' 'I suppose one could say that Hitler didn't betray his self.' He turned. 'You are right. He did not. But millions of Germans did betray their selves. That was the tragedy.'

Man is about to be deprived of a great pole - work routine. The nightmare of capitalist society is unemployment; the nightmare of cybernetic society will be employment.

I love making, I love doing. I love being to the full, I love everything which is not sitting and watching and copying and dead at heart.