To be deprived of art and left alone with philosophy is to be close to Hell.

The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.

It is my conviction that the public always shows itself more honest in its spontaneity than do those who officially set themselves up as judges of works of art.

We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.

The past slips from our grasp. It leaves us only scattered things. The bond that united them eludes us. Our imagination usually fills in the void by making use of preconceived theories...Archaeology, then, does not supply us with certitudes, but rather with vague hypotheses. And in the shade of these hypotheses some artists are content to dream, considering them less as scientific facts than as sources of inspiration.

My God, so much I like to drink Scotch that sometimes I think my name is Igor Stra-whiskey.

The true creator may be recognized by his ability always to find about him, in the commonest and humblest thing, items worthy of note.