The world only goes round by misunderstanding.

'Tis love that makes the world go round, my baby

In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men.

There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create.

Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams.

An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportion.