The only interesting ideas are heresies
All aesthetic judgment is really cultural evaluation.
All great art contains at its center contemplation, a dynamic contemplation.
It hurts to love. It's like giving yourself to be flayed and knowing that at any moment the other person may just walk off with your skin.
I don't intend to let my intellect dominate me, and the last thing I want to do is worship knowledge or people who have knowledge! I don't give a damn for anyone's aggregation of facts, except that it be a reflection [of] basic sensitivity which I do...
I have always been full of lust - as I am now - but I have always been placing conceptual obstacles in my own path.
The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes. It is equivalent to a sense of abusing the present.
I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing - not just a waiting.
