An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.

Art is science made clear.

Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.

Il y a dans le dessin une très grande jouissance. L'écriture, c'est le dessin noué autrement. (...) Et quand je dessine, j'écris, et, peut-être, que quand j'ecris, je dessine.

Je sais que la poésie est indispensable, mais je ne sais pas à quoi.

Opium resembles religion insofar as a magician resembles Jesus.

Art according to art! Love according to love! This is taking the salt away from Heaven. Do you think Our Savior tries to make Himself talked about? He does not ask to be recopied. God cannot be deified without ridicule. He likes to be lived. Dead languages are dead. One must translate Him into all the living languages, and help Him to hide Himself to do good just as the Devil hides himself to do evil.

Poetry is a machine that manufactures love. Its other virtues escape me.

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