...the right to free expression is something one seizes, not something one is given.... if it does exist, it exists to be used against the established order.... There is absolute opposition between the artist and the state.

Whether he wants it or not, man is the instrument of nature; she imposes on him character and appearance.

The academic teaching on beauty is false. We have been misled, but so completely misled that we can no longer find so much as a shadow of a truth again. The beauties of the Parthenon, the Venuses, the Nymphs, the Narcisusses, are so may lies. Art is not the application of a canon of beauty, but what the instinct and the brain can conceive independently of that canon.

I do not evolve, I am.

Good artists copy, great artists steal.

If I spit, they will take my spit and frame it as great art.

Bad artists copy. Good artists steal.