Are you then unable to recognize unless it has the same sound as yours?

One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.

Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.

A work of art is an exaggeration.

The artist who is after success lets himself be influenced by the public. Generally such an artist contributes nothing new, for the public acclaims only what it already knows, what it recognizes.

We prefer to go deformed and distorted all our lives rather than not resemble the portrait of ourselves which we ourselves have first drawn. It’s absurd. We run the risk of warping what’s best in us

With each book you write you should lose the admirers you gained with the previous one.