The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.

The old woman I shall become will be quite different from the woman I am now. Another I is beginning.

I see upon their noble brows the seal of the Lord, for they were born kings of the earth far more truly than those who possess it only from having bought it.

As far as I am concerned I would rather spend the rest of my life in prison than marry again.

Experience is always a trustworthy guide; it may not tell you everything, but it never lies.

You may impose silence upon me, but you can not prevent me from thinking.

Simplicity is the essence of the great, the true, the beautiful in art.