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.

If you can't make art, make your life a work of art.

Seldom is a Gothic head more beautiful than when broken.

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

In the realm of human destiny, the depth of man's questionings is more important than his answers.

The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell.

There are not fifty ways of fighting, there is only one: to be the conqueror.