Beauty should be edible, or not at all.

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

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.

Many people do not reach their eighties because they spend too much time in their forties.

We must always remember that the Chinese revolution was not a peasant's revolution, but one of the extreme Right.

Qui sait déguster ne boit plus jamais de vin, mais goûte des secrets

I was never capable of being an average pupil. I would either seem refractory to any teaching and give the impression of being completely dumb or I would fling myself on my work with a frenzy, a patience, and a willingness to learn that astonished everybody. But to awaken my zeal, it was necessary to offer me something I liked. Once my appetite had been whetted, I became ravenously hungry.