Every great masterpiece is a purification of the world.
He who has dreamed for long resembles his dream.
In a world in which everything is subject to the passing of time, art alone is both subject to time and yet victorious over it.
An artist discovers his genius the day he dares not to please.
In art, we are the first heirs of all the earth. . . . Accidents impair and Time transforms, but it is we who choose.
Youth is a religion from which one always ends up being converted.