Growing old is partly an inescapable process of accommodation and adjustment.

When Michelangelo was an old man, he drew himself sitting in a child's pushcart.

I do not want to die... until I have faithfully made the most of my talent and cultivated the seed that was placed in me, until the last small twig has grown.

Every war carries within it the war which will answer it. Every war is answered by a new war, until everything, everything is smashed.

I am afraid of dying-but being dead, oh yes, that to me is often an appealing prospect.

Bisexuality is almost a necessary factor in artistic production; at any rate, the tinge of masculinity within me helped me in my work.

There must be understanding between the artist and the people. In the best ages of art that has always been the case. Genius can probably run on ahead and seek out new ways. But the good artists who follow after genius — and I count myself among these — have to restore the lost connection once more.