We need writers who fear nothing. ("Our Goal")

What we need in literature today are vast philosophic horizons... we need the most ultimate, the most fearsome, the most fearless "Why?" and "What next?".

It is said there are flowers that bloom only once in a hundred years. Why should there not be some that bloom once in a thousand, in ten thousand years? Perhaps we never know about them simply because this "once in a thousand years" has come today.

Accentuated plainness and accentuated vice ought to bring about harmony. Beauty lies in harmony, in style, whether it be the harmony of ugliness or beauty, vice or virtue.

What is it to you if I don't want others to want for me, if I want to want myself - if I want the impossible.

Revolution is everywhere, in everything. There is no final revolution, no final number.

The most effective way of destroying art is the canonization of one given form. And one philosophy.