And here in my isolation I can grow stronger. Poetry seems to come of itself, without effort, and I need only let myself dream a little while painting to suggest it.

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

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.

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.

I shut my eyes in order to see.

I have come to an unalterable decision - to go and live forever in Polynesia. Then I can end my days in peace and freedom, without thoughts of tomorrow and this eternal struggle against idiots.

Art is either a plagiarist or a revolutionist.