Reality is the apparent absence of contradiction. The marvelous is the eruption of contradiction within the real.

Of all possible sexual perversions, religion is the only one to have ever been scientifically systematized.

We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.

Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash.

As [John Heartfield] was playing with the fire of appearance, reality took fire around him... The scraps of photographs that he formerly manoeuvred for the pleasure of stupification, under his fingers began to signify.

Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

The painting of tomorrow will use the photographic eye as it has used the human eye.