People don't live nowadays: they get about ten percent out of life.

All my life I have struggled to make one authentic gesture.

To awaken human emotion is the highest level of art.

I wonder how many parents realize that by the so-called education they are giving their children, they are only driving them into the commonplace, and depriving them of any chance of doing anything beautiful or original.

The first essential in writing about anything is that the writer should have no experience of the matter.

To dance is to live. What I want is a school of life.

There are joys so complete, so all perfect, that one should not survive them.