The first choice an artist makes is precisely to be an artist, and if he chooses to be an artist it is in consideration of what he is himself and because of a certain idea he has of art

Madness such as this, its like trying to stop a fire with the moisture from a kiss

It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.

Modern conquerors can kill, but do not seem to be able to create. Artists know how to create but cannot really kill. Murderers are only very exceptionally found among artists.

The love of God is a hard love. It demands total self-surrender, disdain of our human personality. And yet it alone can reconcile us to suffering and the deaths of children, it alone can justify them, since we cannot understand them, and we can only make God's will ours.

Can one be a saint if God does not exist? That is the only concrete problem I know of today.

We all have a weakness for beauty.