However gifted an individual is at the outset, if his or her talents cannot be developed because of his or her social condition, because of the surrounding circumstances, these talents will be still-born.

That a whole part of the middle class detests me... is utterly normal. I would be troubled if the contrary were true.

Picasso never thought of himself as avant-garde. I just find it a bad way to think of yourself.

If you are truly on the left, if you reject ideas of power and hierarchy, what you want is equality. Otherwise, it won't work at all.

Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.

If the unconscious must express itself it will do so through the work that you do consciously or subconsciously, with words, with what you have to say.

To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.