The famous pipe. How people reproached me for it! And yet, could you stuff my pipe? No, it's just a representation, is it not? So if I had written on my picture “This is a pipe”, I'd have been lying!

Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.

The famous pipe. How people reproached me for it! And yet, could you stuff my pipe? No, it's just a representation, is it not? So if I had written on my picture “This is a pipe”, I'd have been lying!

We must not fear daylight just because it almost always illuminates a miserable world.

Only thought can resemble. It resembles by being what it sees, hears, or knows; it becomes what the world offers it.

Each thing we see hides something else we want to see.

If the dream is a translation of waking life, waking life is also a translation of the dream.