Art needs an operation

You'll never know why you exist, but you'll always allow yourselves to be easily persuaded to take life seriously.

In principle, I am against principles.

Dada Dada Dada, a roaring of tense colors, and interlacing of opposites and of all contradictions, grotesques, inconsistencies: LIFE.

Everyone dances to his own personal boomboom.

But let's speak of art for a moment. Yes, art. I know a gentleman who makes excellent portraits. This gentleman is a camera.

Any work of art that can be understood is the product of journalism. The rest, called literature, is a dossier of human imbecility for the guidance of future professors.

Let us try for once not to be right.

Art is not the most precious manifestation of life. Art has not the celestial and universal value that people like to attribute to it. Life is far more interesting.

I write a manifesto and I want nothing, yet I say certain things, and in principle I am against manifestoes, as I am also against principles.

The summit sings what is being spoken in the depths.

He was beautiful and still is, we just couldn’t flow within the same constellation.

You must write as if each word is a precious drop of blood, or a tear to be saved in a glass phial.

A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.

Even if the government spends itself into bankruptcy and the economy still does not recover, Keynesians can always say that it would have worked if only the government had spent more.

In honor of his new Nobel, this hard-core Dylanophile wants to share with you a song or two from each of his many incarnations. Because you deserve to know.

Then came a bigger fear. Not the threat of imminent injury, but the fear that if I didn't go back up, I would be a chickenshit forever.

I don't want to do anything over again, ever again. I want only to do what I haven't done. There's no "again." There's only the future. I hate the past - especially my own past.

We grow despite the horror that we feed upon our own tomorrow. We grow.

A good example brings about so much good, but hypocrisy brings about so much evil.

The hope of the world lies in the rehabilitation of the living human being, not just the body but also the soul.