Cultivate everything the critics hated in your first work - that's what makes you unique..

When I write, I disturb. When I show a film, I disturb. When I exhibit my painting, I disturb, and I disturb if I don't. I have a knack for disturbin….

Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself..

The Louvre is a morgue; you go there to identify your friends..

Poetry is a religion with no hope..

Nothing ever gets anywhere. The earth keeps turning round and gets nowhere. The moment is the only thing that counts..

Mirrors would do well to reflect a little more before sending back images..

The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try….

The hot hall full of painted girls and American soldiers is a saloon in some Western film. This noise drenches us, wakens us to do something else. It….

Do not take up cause against the inaccuracies printed about you. They are your protection..

Catastrophe, riots, factories blowing up, armies in flight, flood - the ear can detect a whole apocalypse in the starry night of the human body..

Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail..

The joy of youth is to disobey; but the trouble is that there are no longer any orders..

I want the kind of readers who remain children at any cost. I can tell them at a glance: loyalty to that first enchantment guards better than any cos….

Since these mysteries exceed my grasp, I shall pretend to have organized them..

French people are Italian people in a bad mood..

Living is a horizontal fall..

Do not fear being ridiculous in relation to the ridiculous..

Celebrity: I picture myself as a marble bust with legs to run everywhere..

A car can massage organs which no masseur can reach. It is the one remedy for the disorders of the great sympathetic nervous system..

Art produces ugly things which frequently become beautiful with time..