Always, however brutal an age may actually have been, its style transmits its music only.
The true painter strives to paint what can only be seen through his world.
War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously.
There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman.
Man knows that the world is not made on a human scale; and he wishes that it were.
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.