I am imbued with the notion that a Muse is necessarily a dead woman, inaccessible or absent; that a poetic structure - like the canon, which is only …

- Michel Leiris

Nothing seems more like a whorehouse to me than a museum. In it you find the same equivocal aspect, the same frozen quality.

- Michel Leiris

If a dream affords the dreamer some light on himself, it is not the person with closed eyes who makes the discovery but the person with open eyes luc…

- Michel Leiris

Fascism: awful stench of saw and axe.

- Michel Leiris