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

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.

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.

Your heart like a hawk-mouth in the sun, your heart like a ship on an atoll, your heart like a compass needle driven mad by a little piece of lead, like washing drying in the wind, like a whining of horses, like seed thrown to the birds, like an evening paper one has finished reading! Your heart is a charade that the whole world has guessed.

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.