“Art is amoral; so is life. For me there are no obscene pictures or books; there are only poorly conceived and poorly executed ones.”
“Being poor is only romantic in books.”
“Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.”
“In the face of the obscene, explicit malice of the jungle, which lacks only dinosaurs as punctuation, I feel like a half-finished, poorly expressed sentence in a cheap novel.”
“Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject.”
“It is one thing to conceive a good plan, and another to execute it”