Genius is not perfected, it is deepened. It does not so much interpret the world as fertilize itself with it.
An artist discovers his genius the day he dares not to please.
Every great masterpiece is a purification of the world.
To understand what the outside of an aquarium looks like, it's better not to be a fish.
The terrible thing about death is that it transforms life into destiny.
The great mystery is not that we should have been thrown down here at random between the profusion of matter and that of the stars; it is that from our very prison we should draw, from our own selves, images powerful enough to deny our own nothingness.