Art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.

There are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman.

An entire lifetime would not be long enough for you to exhaust the glance of the young harvest-girl.

When sometimes, behind his back, they called him a tyrant, he merely smiled and uttered this profound observation: If some day I turn liberal, they will say I have let them down.

Let us eat, drink and satisfy our coarse appetites, but let us keep our souls sacred and apart.

If I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity.

Through the centuries, the history of peoples is but a lesson in mutual tolerance.