All spiritual journeys are martyrdoms

Picasso said that everything is a miracle, that it's a miracle that we don't dissolve in our baths.

I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a friendship, took it from me, sent me another.

Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail.

The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.

I succeeded in bewitching a fair number and in being intoxicated with my mistakes.

And history becomes legend and legend becomes history.