Do not imagine you can exorcise what oppresses you in life by giving vent to it in art.

I'm absolutely removed from the world at such times...The hours go by without my knowing it. Sitting there I'm wandering in countries I can see every detail of - I'm playing a role in the story I'm reading. I actually feel I'm the characters - I live and breath with them.

Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.

Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.

On spinach: I dislike it, and am happy to dislike it because if I liked it I would eat it, and I cannot stand it.

The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful; one must sense him everywhere but never see him.

Everything is there: the love of Art.