You've always made the mistake of being yourself.

Banality is a symptom of non-communication. Men hide behind their cliches.

It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.

Like all revolutions, the surrealist revolution was a reversion, a restitution, an expression of vital and indispensable spiritual needs.

If one does not understand the usefulness of the useless and the uselessness of the useful, one cannot understand art.

Theatre is simply what cannot be expressed by any other means; a complexity of words, movements, gestures that convey a vision of the world inexpressible in any other way.

Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.

All cats die. Socrates is dead. Therefore Socrates is a cat.

A writer never has a vacation. For a writer, life consists of either writing or thinking about writing.

It's only when I say that everything is incomprehensible that I come as close as possible to understanding the only thing it is given to us to understand.

The Arts are man's most useless ... and essential ... activity.

anyone who’s worth anything reads just what he likes, as the mood takes him, and with extravagant enthusiasm.

Violence is rather a strange phenomenon that can be compared to fire, once out of control it’s loyal to no one, not even to the person who started it.

I go from a corruptible, to an incorruptible Crown; where no disturbance can be, no disturbance in the World.

Never underestimate the effectiveness of a straight cash bribe.

What's good for Blacks is good for all of America.

I wanna explain something about the title 'Yeezus', simply put 'West' was my slave name and 'Yeezus' is my God name.

It's so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.

A lot of people say, "What's the worst part about being an actor?" And the worst part is that you're not a musician.

I think we should make a closer link between domestic policy and an interventionist militaristic foreign policy.

Love's stories written in love's richest books. To fan the moonbeams from his sleeping eyes.