The famous soft watches are nothing else than the tender, extravagant, solitary, paranoic-critical camembert oftime and space.

[My art is] capable of liberating man from the tyranny of the 'practical, rational world.'

And now the announcement of Watson and Crick about DNA. This is for me the real proof of the existence of God.

Great wine requires a mad man to grow the vine, a wise man to watch over it, a lucid poet to make it, and a lover to drink it.

For me, love must be ugly, looks must be divine, and death must be beautiful.

I think that the sweetest freedom for a man on earth consists in being able to live, if he likes, without having the need to work.

Give me two hours a day of activity, and I'll take the other twenty-two in dreams.