“Everything alters me, but nothing changes me.”

“Let the labyrinth of wrinkles be furrowed in my brow with the red-hot iron of my own life, let my hair whiten and my step become vacillating, on condition that I can save the intelligence of my soul - let my unformed childhood soul, as it ages, assume the rational and esthetic forms of an architecture, let me learn just everything that others cannot teach me, what only life would be capable of marking deeply in my skin!”

“Take me, I am the drug; take me, I am hallucinogenic”

“Give me two hours a day of activity, and I'll take the other twenty-two in dreams.”

“It is not necessary for the public to know whether I am joking or whether I am serious, just as it is not necessary for me to know it myself.”

“Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.”

“You have to systematically create confusion, it sets creativity free. Everything that is contradictory creates life”