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.

The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.

The next century's task will be to rediscover its gods.

The only domain where the divine is visible is that of art, whatever name we choose to call it.

Genius is not perfected, it is deepened. It does not so much interpret the world as fertilize itself with it.

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

A break in the established order is never the work of chance. It is the outcome of a man's resolve to turn life to account.