Do not call yourself old. A man is as old as the creative force within him.

Bleed me of art, and there won't be enough liquid left in me to spit! [Michelangelo Buonorotti]

I cannot draw a human figure if I don't know the order of his bones, muscles or tendons. Same is that I cannot draw a human face if I don't know what's going on his mind and heart. In order to paint life one must understand not only anatomy, but what people feel and think about the world they live in. The painter who knows his own craft and nothing else will turn out to be a very superficial artist.

There are neither good nor evil, only the existence and action.

Each of us has his own alphabet with which to create poetry.

If it is noticed that much of my outside work concerns itelf with libraries, there is an extremely good reason for this. I think that the better part of my education, almost as important as that secured in the schools and the universities, came from libraries.

What we know of others is our personal secret.