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 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 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?

My mother is a very strange woman... She doesn't understand me in the least and doesn't love me much either. If she had either love or understanding she would be prepared to make sacrifices

Many have died

Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice?

In the end, the church will either declare the truth of God's Word, or it will find a way to run away from it.

You have to exercise, or at some point you'll just break down.

The earth is a museum of divine intent.

Not nature, but the "genius of mankind," has knotted the hangman's noose with which it can execute itself at any moment.

Change is never a matter of ability, it's always a matter of motivation.

Biotech and geo engineering have the same mindset, of engineering, of power, of control, of mastery of nature.

She clung to that which had robbed her, as people do.

The earth says have a place, be what that place requires; hear the sound the birds imply and see as deep as ridges go behind each other.