Sooner or later people will learn to recognize your worth

In Europe men and women have intercourse because they love each other. In the South Seas they love each other because they have had intercourse. Who is right?

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.

I have tried to establish the right to dare everything.

Art is either a plagiarist or a revolutionist.

I sit at my door, smoking a cigarette and sipping my absinthe, and I enjoy every day without a care in the world