I don't know whether there is anyone else at all who remembers my noble father with such sadness

I must see new things and investigate them. I want to taste dark water and see crackling trees and wild winds.

No erotic work of art is filth if it is artistically significant; it is only turned into filth through the beholder if he is filthy.

Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal.

To restrict the artist is a crime. It is to murder germinating life

Bodies have their own light which they consume to live: they burn, they are not lit from the outside.

Everything is dead while it lives.

I do not deny that I have made drawings and watercolors of an erotic nature. But they are always works of art. Are there no artists who have done erotic pictures?

I believe in the immortality of all creatures.

I shall go so far that people will be seized with terror at the sight of each of my works of 'living' art.

I must live in my own excrement, breathe in my own poisonous sticky fumes. Yet I am a human being! I still am. Does no one think of that?

It had as many immoralities as the machine of today has virtues. After a year or two I found that it was degrading my character, so I thought I would give it to Howells.

Murderer ain't fit to eternity.

5 mins after your birth, they decide your name, nationality, religion & sect & you spend rest of your life defending something you didn't choose.

The American people are tired. They're tired of the bickering in Washington, D.C., and the lack of action.

If you have the opportunity to try different things, you should try different things and step outside your comfort zone and see what works and what doesn't work.

The economy is showing encouraging signs of recovery.

I think everything in life happens for a reason. I always think there's room for me to improve as a person.

Everything is funny, if you can laugh at it.

There could be something incredibly grand and incomprehensible and beyond our present understanding.

The most important actions are never comfortable.