The individual never asserts himself more than when he forgets himself.

Man! The most complex of creatures, and for this reason the most dependant of creatures. On everything that has formed you, you may depend. Do not balk at this apparent slavery....a debtor to many, you pay for your advantages by the same number of dependencies. Understand that independence is a form of poverty; that many things claim you, that many also claim kinship with you.

He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.

Clear and precise ideas are the most dangerous, for one does not dare to change them.

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.

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

To be sure, theory is useful. But without warmth of heart and without love it bruises the very ones it claims to save.