Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be...including our perception. Of it

I know why families were created with all their imperfections. They humanize you. They are made to make you forget yourself occasionally, so that the beautiful balance of life is not destroyed.

The ivory tower of the artist may be the only stronghold left for human values, cultural treasures, man’s cult of beauty.

the best way to remember a beautiful city or a beautiful painting is to eat something while you are looking at it. The flavor really helps the image to penetrate the body. It fixes it as lacquer does a drawing.

The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life. Albert Einstein It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Idealism is the death of the body and the imagination. All but freedom, utter freedom, is death

Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.