What made me run away was doubtless not so much the fear of settling down, but of settling down permanently in something ugly.

They hurt each other without wanting to, just because each represented to the others the cruel and demanding necessity of their lives.

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 are all exceptional cases. We all want to appeal against something! Each of us insists on being innocent at all cost, even if he has to accuse the whole human race and heaven itself.

In truth, I was so good at being a man, with such plenitude and simplicity, that I thought I was something of a superman.

My life was lucky so that I met, I loved (and disappointed) only outstanding people.

A man wants to earn money in order to be happy, and his whole effort and the best of a life are devoted to the earning of that money. Happiness is forgotten; the means are taken for the end.