“The Fine Arts are five in number: Painting, Music, Poetry, Sculpture, and Architecture--whereof the principle branch is Confectionery.”

“The arts which need interpretation are the arts of time -- music and poetry -- and not the arts of space -- sculpture and painting.”

“There are only four great arts: music, painting, sculpture, and ornamental pastry - architecture being the least banal derivative of the latter.”

“There are only four great arts: music, painting, sculpture, and ornamental pastry- architecture being perhaps the least banal derivative of the latter.”

“Il pleut doucement, ma mère,Et c’est l’automneSi doucementQue c’est la même pluieEt le même automneQu’il y a bien des ans.Il pleut et il y a encore,Comme il y a bien des ans,Combien de cœurs au fil de l’eauEt combien de petits sabotsRêvant au coin de l’âtre.Et c’est le soir, ma mère,Et tes genoux sont làSi près du feuQue c’est le même soirEt les mêmes genouxQu’il y a bien des ans.Il pleut doucement, ma mère,Et c’est l’automneEt c’est le soir, ma mère,Et tes genoux sont là.Prends-moi sur tes genoux, ce soir,Comme il y a bien des ansEt raconte-moi l’histoireDe la Belle au bois dormant.”

“Poetry is a dissociating and anarchic force which through analogy, associations and imagery, thrives on the destruction of known relationships.”

“No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell.”