A creator is not in advance of his generation but he is the first of his contemporaries to be conscious of what is happening to his generation. A creator who creates, who is not an academician, who is not someone who studies in a school where the rules are already known, and of course being known they no longer exist, a creator then who creates is necessarily of his generation. His generation lives in its contemporary way but they only live in it. In art, in literature, in the theatre, in short in everything that does not contribute to their immediate comfort they live in the preceding generation.

Perhaps I am not I even if my little dog knows me but anyway I like what I have and now it is today. ~ Ch. 5

The surrealists still see things as everyone sees them, they complicate them in a different way but the vision is that of everyone else, in short the complicat…

The head-lines which do not head anything they simply replace something but they do not make anything. ~ Ch. 5

The artist who becomes thoroughly aware consequently ceases to be one.

What the artist wishes to do - as far as you are concerned - is to take you out of yourself. As far as he is concerned, he wishes to express himself.

There's a kind of silliness in the theater about what one contributes to a show. The producer obviously contributes the money... but must the actor contribute …