“If I’m going to be anything more than average, if anyone is going to remember me, then I need to go further, in art, in life, in everything!”

This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

An elegant woman is a woman who despises you and has no hair under her arms.

Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.

Repulsion is the sentry that guards the gate to all that we most desire.

Physiological expenditure is a superficial way of self-expression. People who incline toward physical love accomplish nothing at all.

The mere fact of photographic transposition means a total invention: the capture of a secret reality.

Anything that does not take place erotically sublimates itself in the work of art.

When we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another.

Liking money like I like it, is nothing less than mysticism. Money is a glory.

Freedom of any kind is the worst for creativity.

Do not be afraid of perfection – you will never attain it.

Genius has to pass over madness and madness over genius.

The reason some portraits don’t look true to life is that some people make no effort to resemble their pictures.

Everything that is contradictory creates life.

There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.

Don’t bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.

If there is no mystery, for the artist, to solve inside of his art, then there’s no point in it….for me, every act of the art of solving a mystery.

There is not room for Death, Nor atom that his might could render void: Thou – Thou art Being and Breath, And what Thou art may never be destroyed.

Love is the sum of all the arts, as it is the reason for their existence.

Moonlight is sculpture.

No art comes from the conscious mind.

A race is a work of art that people can look at and be affected in as many ways they’re capable of understanding.

We must link Azamgarh to art and culture and not with terrorism and crime.

A work of art is one of mystery, the one extreme magic; everything else is either arithmetic or biology.