... politics are nothing but sand and gravel: it is art and life that feed us until we die. Everything else is ambition, hysteria or hatred.

I don't like quintessential certitude.

All art, in spite of the struggles of some critics to prove otherwise, is based on emotion and projects emotion.

True revolutions in art restore more than they destroy.

Your work is carved out of agony as a statue is carved out of marble.

But childhood prolonged, cannot remain a fairyland. It becomes a hell.

... how much of our inner substance is it good for us to give to public griefs? The whole modern tendency to agonize over the suffering of the entire globe is surely something new.