Never trouble anyone else with what you can do yourself

Being silent for a while is good. Words can't really express a person's emotions.

Art would be useless if the world were perfect.

Knowledge is truthful only if it’s based in morality.

What is art? (...) Like a declaration of love: the consciousness of our dependence on each other. A confession. An unconscious act that none the less reflects the true meaning of life—love and sacrifice.

An artist needs knowledge and the power of observation only so that he can tell from what he is abstaining, and to be sure that his abstention will not appear artificial or false.

A book read by a thousand different people is a thousand different books.