Poverty is the great reality. That is why the artist seeks it.

Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.

Societies in decline have no use for visionaries.

At first she beckoned and lured one into her world; then, she blurred the passageways, confused all the images, as if to elude detection.

I prefer by far the warmth and softness to mere brilliancy and coldness. Some people remind me of sharp dazzling diamonds. Valuable but lifeless and loveless. Others, of the simplest field flowers, with hearts full of dew and with all the tints of celestial beauty reflected in their modest petals.

Something is always born of excess: great art was born of great terror, great loneliness, great inhibitions, instabilities, and it always balances them.

I believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.