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

But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.

Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.

No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond.

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.

The belief that becomes truth for me... is that which allows me the best use of my strength, the best means of putting my virtues into action.

The most decisive actions of life are most often unconsidered actions.