It is obvious that art cannot teach anyone anything, since in four thousand years humanity has learnt nothing at all.

The death of childhood is the beginning of poetry.

If we succeed with something, that is only because others are in need of what e have produced. And the more success we have with something, the more people require that we express it. So it goes without saying, as a result of this we in principle never win out, others win. We always lose

I think in fact that unless there is an organic link between the subjective impressions of the author and his objective representation of reality, he will not achieve even superficial credibility, let alone authenticity and inner truth.

The meaning of religious truth is hope.

An artist cannot be partially sincere any more than art can be an approximation of beauty.

Art is born and takes hold wherever there is a timeless and insatiable longing for the spiritual...