I am convinced that the air we normally breathe is a kind of water, and men and women are a species of fish.

Beauty is an experience, nothing else. It is not a fixed pattern or an arrangement of features. It is something felt, a glow or a communicated sense of fineness.

When we really want to go for something better, we shall smash the old. Until then, any sort of proposal, or making proposals, is no more than a tiresome game for self-important people.

Art is a form of supremely delicate awareness and atonement — meaning atoneness, the state of being at one with the object.

For my part, I prefer my heart to be broken. It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack.

Men are not free when they're doing just what they like. Men are only free when they're doing what the deepest self likes. And there is getting down to the deepest self! It takes some diving.

If I take my whole, passionate, spiritual and physical love to the woman who in return loves me, that is how I serve God. And my hymn and my game of joy is my work.