History doesn't pass the dishes again.

It is of men, and of them only, that one should always be frightened.

I'd seen too many troubling things to be easy in my mind. I knew too much and not enough. I'd better go out, I said to myself, I'd better go out again.

Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

The foreground in a picture is always unattractive... Art demands that the interest of the canvas should be placed in the far distance, where lies take refuge, those dreams which blossom out of fact and are man's only love.

In circumstances of real tragedy you see things straight away...past, present, and future together.

Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it.