Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.

Please do not understand me too quickly.

Believe those who seek the truth, doubt those who find it; doubt all, but do not doubt yourself.

It is one of life's laws that as soon as one door closes another opens. But the tragedy is we look at the closed door and disregard the open one.

An artist cannot get along without a public; and when the public is absent, what does he do? He invents it, and turning his back on his age, he looks toward the future for what the present denies.

The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers the most from its own limitations.

At times is it seems that I am living my life backward, and that at the approach of old age my real youth will begin. My soul was born covered with wrinkles. Wrinkles my ancestors and parents most assiduously put there and that I had the greatest trouble removing.