Without artists, the sublime idea men have of the universe would collapse with dizzying speed.

Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

Come to the edge.' 'We can't. We're afraid.' 'Come to the edge.' 'We can't. We will fall!' 'Come to the edge.' And they came. And he pushed them. And they flew.

When man resolved to imitate walking, he invented the wheel, which does not look like a leg. In doing this, he was practicing surrealism without knowing it.

Cubism is the art of depicting new wholes with formal elements borrowed not only from the reality of vision, but from that of conception.

Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony.

Joy came always after pain.

Memories are hunting horns whose sound dies on the wind.

I don't want to work. I want to smoke.

Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman.

I love men, not for what unites them, but for what divides them, and I want to know most of all what gnaws at their hearts.

One, who suicides, is itself a killer and itself a victim. To trigger that has its decision, and own willingness, no one else.

Eat your heart out. Oh, wait. You can’t. It’s not organic.

Art is its own excuse, and it's either Art or it's something else. It's either a poem or a piece of cheese.

It's been said that alcoholics are egomaniacs with low self -esteem. It's the prefect description. Being larger than life and yet your pride is crushed with self- loathing.

If you look deep inside trust, you'll find truth.

Members of the Academy are mostly urban people. We are an urban nation. We are not a rural nation. It's not easy even to get a rural story made.

My heart is a void, dead, and this makes me sad.

I'm considered wise, and sometimes I see myself as knowing. Most of the time, I see myself as wanting to know. And I see myself as a very interested person. I've never been bored in my life.

I was in group therapy for years but it wasn't the same thing. It was more about growing.

If you can't eliminate injustice, at least tell everyone about it.