The only true voyage, the only bath in the Fountain of Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to see the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to see the hundred universes that each of them sees, that each of them is; and this we do [with great artists]; with artists like these we do really fly from star to star.

It is always thus, impelled by a state of mind which is destined not to last, we make our irrevocable decisions

When you work to please others you can't succeed, but the things you do to satisfy yourself stand a chance of catching someone's interest.

Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.

Love is space and time measured by the heart.

It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.

A work should convey its entire meaning by itself, imposing it on the spectator even before he knows what the subject is.