I Too Am A Government.

When I Am No Longer Controversial, I Will No Longer Be Important

I Deny That Art Can Be Taught, Or, In Other Words, Maintain That Art Is Completely Individual, And That The Talent Of Each Artist Is But The Result Of His Own Inspiration And His Own Study Of Past Tradition.

I Hope To Live All My Life For My Art, Without Abandoning My Principles One Iota.

It Is Fatal For Art If It Is Forced Into Official Respectability And Condemned To Sterile Mediocrity.

Without Trying To Clear Up The Degree Of Correctness Of A Qualification Which No One, One Must Hope, Will Be Asked To Understand Exactly, I Will Limit Myself To A Few Words Of Explanation To Cut Short Any Misunderstandings.