“You don’t make art out of good intentions.”

“The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.”

“With a little more time, patience, and hard work, and above all with a more sensitive taste for the formal aspects of arts, he would have managed to write mediocre poetry, good enough for a lady’s album – and this is always a gallant thing to do, whatever you may say.”

“Do not imagine you can exorcise what oppresses you in life by giving vent to it in art. ”

“Love art. Of all lies, it is the least untrue.”

“It seems to me, alas, that if you can so thoroughly dissect your children who are still to be born, you don’t get horny enough to actually to father them.”

“Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom.”