“If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud.”

“When lovers kiss on the cheeks, it is because they are searching, feeling for one another's lips. Lovers are made by a kiss.”

“Death had to take her little by little, bit by bit, dragging her along to the bitter end of the miserable existence she'd made for herself. They never even knew what she did die of. Some spoke of a...”

“Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest.”

“I would rather die of passion than of boredom.”

“The festivity had reached that apogee of joy when you face the happy fate of being crushed to death.”

“To create art with all the passion in one's soul is to live art with all the beauty in one's heart.”

“art is risk made visible”

“Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.”