In art, there are only two types of people: revolutionaries and plagiarists. And in the end, doesn't the revolutionary's work become official, once the State takes it over?

Stay firmly in your path and dare; be wild two hours a day!

In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary; and it is they alone who are masters.

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

Sooner or later people will learn to recognize your worth

A critic in my house sees some paintings. Greatly perturbed, he asks for my drawings. My drawings? Never! They are my letters, my secrets.

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.