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

As for the outside world, the artist is confronted by what he sees; but what he sees is primarily what he looks at.

Every creation is, at its root, the struggle between potential form and imitated form.

He who has dreamed for long resembles his dream.

There are not fifty ways of fighting, there's only one, and that's to win. Neither revolution nor war consists in doing what one pleases.

The most important thing in life is to see to it that you are never beaten.