For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential - the imagination.

No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat.

Every man is made of clay and diamond, and no woman can nourish both.

It is not peace we seek but meaning.

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

The memory of man is as old as misfortune

An idea is like a rare bird which cannot be seen. What one sees is the trembling of the branch it has just left.