What the painter adds to the canvas are the days of his life. The adventure of living, hurtling toward death.
Jean-Paul SartreAll I want is' - and he uttered the final words through clenched teeth and with a sort of shame - 'to retain my freedom.' I should myself have thought,' said Jacques, 'that freedom consisted in frankly confronting situations into which one had deliberately entered, and accepting all one's responsibilities. But that, no doubt, is not your view.
Jean-Paul SartreA man is always a teller of tales, he lives surrounded by his stories and the stories of others, he sees everything that happens to him through them; and he tries to live his life as if he were recounting it.
Jean-Paul SartreThat is exactly the writer's problem. What does literature stand for in a hungry world?
Jean-Paul Sartre