Not the old, not the new, but the necessary.

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.

Be a butterfly and always look for kindness, softness and beauties.

Amen” means ‘Yes’, it is done, glory to God!

Metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with.

I am not one of those people who will ever be comfortable mocking or making caricatures of the stereotypes attached to any community.

I always wanted to live to about 70. I thought that'd be a good age.

One eye of the masters sees more, then ten of the servants. [One eye of the master sees more than ten of the servants']

Contact with the affairs of state is one of the most corrupting of the influences to which men are exposed.

Your 40s are a major trough. About the age of 50, feelings of satisfaction begin to rebound and keep rising into your 50s, 60s and 70s, with health being a major factor.

The juices never stop flowing. I still write songs.