1. “I was in love with everything – I wanted to look with love at the angry people so that their eyes would be forced to respond; and I wanted to bring gifts to the envious and tell them that I am worthless.”
2. “I am so rich that I must give myself away.”
3. “I believe in the immortality of all creatures.”
4. “I must see new things and investigate hem. I want to taste dark water and see cracking trees and wild winds.”
5. “Everything is dead while it lives.”
6. “I shall go so far that people will be seized with terror a the sight of each of my works of ‘living’ art.”
7. “To restrict the artist is a crime. It is to murder germinating life.”
8. “No erotic work of art is filth if it is artistically significant; it is only turned into filth through the beholder if he is filthy.”
9. “Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal.”
10. “Bodies have their own light which they consume to live: they burn, they are not lit from the outside.”
