In a sick world, it is the first duty of the artist to get well.
The realization of ignorance is the first act of knowing.
If you have heard a Jewish cantor sing, if he has touched you and made your own sorrow seem trivial when compared with his, you will know my feeling when I follow the curves of her profile, like mobile rivers, to their common delta.
To understand a new idea, break an old habit.
No eyes that have seen beauty ever lose their sight.
Whatever I believed, I did; I did with my whole heart and mind as far as possible to do so.