I do not believe in my death.

Young people need plenty of difficulties to achieve something.... If you receive a little money for this, a little money for that, everything becomes mediocre, and collapses ignominiously.

I worry about another leg down in the economies causing social disruption because deleveragings can be very painful - it depends on how they're managed.

Now sexual obsessions are the basis of artistic creation. Accumulated frustration leads to what Freud calls the process of sublimation. Anything that does not take place erotically sublimates itself in the work of art

Just as I am astonished that a bank clerk never eats a cheque, so too am I astonished that no painter before me ever thought of painting a soft watch.

Everything that is contradictory creates life

It is not necessary for the public to know whether I am joking or whether I am serious, just as it is not necessary for me to know it myself.