The illiterate of the future will not be the man who cannot read the alphabet, but the one who cannot take a photograph.

The illiterate of the future will not be the man who cannot read the alphabet, but the one who cannot take a photograph.

For only that which we knew and practiced at age 15 will one day constitute our attraction. And one thing, therefore, can never be made good: having neglected to run away from home.

Painting, by its nature, cannot provide an object of simultaneous collective reception... as film is able to do today... And while efforts have been made to present paintings to the masses in galleries and salons, this mode of reception gives the masses no means of organizing and regulating their response. Thus, the same public which reacts progressively to a slapstick comedy inevitably displays a backward attitude toward Surrealism.

Living substance conquers the frenzy of destruction only in the ecstasy of procreation.

We collect books in the belief that we are preserving them when in fact it is the books that preserve their collector.

The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.