A symbol always transcends the one who makes use of it and makes him say in reality more than he is aware of expressing.

The most exhausting effort in my life has been to suppress my own nature in order to make it serve my biggest plans.

A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.

We all have a weakness for beauty.

In this vast country that he had so loved, he was alone.

I hadn't understood how days could be both long and short at the same time: long to live through, maybe, but so drawn out that they ended up flowing into one another. They lost their names. Only 'yesterday' and 'tomorrow' still had any meaning for me.

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.