As objects of contemplation, images of the atrocious can answer to several different needs. To steel oneself against weakness. To make oneself more numb. To acknowledge the existence of the incorrigible.

Today is such a time, when the project of interpretation is largely reactionary, stifling. Like the fumes of the automobile and of heavy industry which befoul the urban atmosphere, the effusion of interpretations of art today poisons our sensibilities. In a culture whose already classical dilemma is the hypertrophy of the intellect at the expense of energy and sensual capability, interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art.

The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste.

I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list.

I'm only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.

The moral pleasure in art, as well as the moral service that art performs, consists in the intelligent gratification of consciousness.

the appetite for thinking must be regulated, as all sensible people know, for it may stifle one's life.