A person of any mental quality has ideas of his own. This is common sense.
A good Cuban cigar closes the doors to the vulgarities of the world.
My mind and fingers have worked like the damned. Homer, the Bible, Plato, Locke, Lamartine, Chateaubriand, Beethoven, Bach, Hummel, Mozart, Weber are all around me. I study them. I devour them with fury.
Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny.
Truth is a great flirt.
It is impossible to imagine a more complete fusion with nature than that of the Gypsy.