The truth about a man lies first and foremost in what he hides.

The terrible thing about death is that it transforms life into destiny.

Every young man's heart is a graveyard in which are inscribed the names of a thousand dead artists but whose only actual denizens are a few mighty, often antagonistic, ghosts.

In art, we are the first heirs of all the earth. . . . Accidents impair and Time transforms, but it is we who choose.

He who has dreamed for long resembles his dream.

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.

The world of art is not a world of immortality but of metamorphosis.