Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.

Ordinary life does not interest me.

But the artist persists because he has the will to create, and this is the magic power which can transform and transfigure and transpose and which will ultimately be transmitted to others.

Anxiety is love's greatest killer, because it is like the stranglehold of the drowning.

We have been poisoned by fairy tales.

One must be thrust out of a finished cycle in life, and that leap is the most difficult to make - to part with one's faith, one's love, when one would prefer to renew the faith and recreate the passion.

If a person continues to see only giants, it means he is still seeing the world through the eyes of a child. I have a feeling that man's fear of woman comes from having first seen her as the mother, creator of men.