The only really committed artist is he who, without refusing to take part in the combat, at least refuses to join the regular armies and remains a freelance.

Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal's deed, however calculated can be compared. For there to be an equivalency, the death penalty would have to punish a criminal who had warned his victim of the date at which he would inflict a horrible death on him and who, from that moment onward, had confined him at his mercy for months. Such a monster is not encountered in private life.

It's not your pictures I like; it's your painting.

To feel absolutely right is the beginning of the end.

Nature is a burning and frigid, transparent and limited universe in which nothing is possible but everything is given.

To remain a man in today's world, one must have not only unfailing energy and unwavering intensity, one must also have a little luck.

Big tears of frustration and exhaustion were streaming down his cheeks. But because of all the wrinkles, they weren't dripping off. They spread out and ran together again, leaving a watery film over his ruined face.