Nail up some indecency in plain sight over your door; from that time forward you will be rid of all respectable people,the most insupportable folk God has created.

Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.

I am a great artist and I know it, it is because I am that I have been able to endure so much suffering.

I have always wanted a mistress who was fat, and I have never found one. To make a fool of me, they are always pregnant.

Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?

Art is either a plagiarist or a revolutionist.

Machines have come, art has fled, and I am far from thinking photography can help us.