Man's responsibility increases as that of the gods decreases.

It would be wisest not to worry too much about the sterile periods. They ventilate the subject and instill into it the reality of daily life.

The work of art is the exaggeration of an idea.

To win ones joy through struggle is better than to yield to melancholy.

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

Do not do what someone else could do as well as you. Do not say, do not write what someone else could say, could write as well as you. Care for nothing in yourself but what you feel exists nowhere else. And, out of yourself create, impatiently or patiently, the most irreplaceable of beings.

There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.