I suggested that it was not enough to add a moustache to the Mona Lisa: it should simply be destroyed.

Music is a labyrinth with no beginning and no end, full of new paths to discover, where mystery remains eternal

Any musician who has not experienced - I do not say understood, but truly experienced - the necessity of dodecaphonic music is USELESS. For his whole work is irrelevant to the needs of his epoch.

It is not enough to deface the Mona Lisa because that does not kill the Mona Lisa. All art of the past must be destroyed.

For me, curiosity is life. If you are not curious, you are in your coffin.

More and more I find that in order to create effectively one has to consider delirium and, yes, organize it.

The aim of music is not to express feelings but to express music.

Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous.

Creation exists only in the unforeseen made necessary.

We have to fight the past to survive.

All art of the past must be destroyed.

The hardest part of changing things is knowing how much needs changing,

Solemnity is the shield of idiots

When someone has a weight problem when they're pregnant, they will struggle before, during and after to lose weight.

I certainly think that when I flick through all the magazines at the hairdresser's I like to see and am drawn to images that have an intelligence and mind at work behind them.

Creativity is no excuse for obnoxious behavior

In painting, detail for the sake of itself is useless. It must have relevance to the whole.

The most revolutionary ideas are not sellable, but only mind-changing.

You can't stop being a citizen just because you have a Screen Actors' Guild card.

Only he who is helpless can truly pray.

Freedom is such a precious commodity. Yet sometimes the freest of people devalue it the most.