Art is mind and heart and touch as much and more than it is mere instrument, technique - without which however it cannot exist at all.

Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one's training.

When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase.

I would willingly stand at street corners, hat in hand, begging passerby to drop their unused minutes into it.

It makes me happy to encounter goodness, love of work, humane intelligence, and people no matter at what kind of job, be it ever so humble, or ever so exalted, who do it well and con amore.

There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man's reason has never learnt to separate them.

From childhood on I have had the dream of life lived as a sacrament... the dream implied taking life ritually as something holy.