...art must must carry man's craving for the ideal, must be an expression of his reaching out towards it; that art must give man hope and faith. And the more hopeless the world in the artist's version, the more clearly perhaps must we see the ideal that stands in opposition - otherwise life becomes impossible! Art symbolises the meaning of our existence.

Never trouble anyone else with what you can do yourself

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

Some sort of pressure must exist. The artist exists because the world is not perfect. Art would be useless if the world were perfect, as man wouldn’t look for harmony but would simply live in it. Art is born out of an ill-designed world.

I am only interested in the views of two people: one is called Bresson and one called Bergman.

We have forgotten to observe. Instead of observing, we do things according to patterns.

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