The anxiety we have for the figure we cut, for our personage, is constantly cropping out. We are showing off and are often more concerned with making a display than with living. Whoever feels observed observes himself.

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

One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

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

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

True eloquence forgoes eloquence.

It is often so: the harder it is to hear, the more a truth is worth saying.