"The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet."

"Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution."

"There are neither good nor bad subjects. From the point of view of pure Art, you could almost establish it as an axiom that the subject is irrelevant, style itself being an absolute manner of seeing things."

"The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest."

"A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind."

"Art is the child of Nature yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother's face, her aspect and her attitude."

"My definition of hip hop is taking elements from many other spheres of music to make hip hop. Whether it be breakbeat, whether it be the groove and grunt of James Brown or the pickle-pop sounds of Kraftwerk or Yellow Magic Orchestra, hip hop is also part of what they call hip-house now, or trip hop, or even parts of drum n' bass."

"Thought is a strenuous art - few practice it, and then only at rare times."