It is one thing to be gifted and quite another thing to be worthy of one's own gift.

Life is denied by lack of attention, whether it be to cleaning windows or trying to write a masterpiece.

Great art likes chains. The greatest artists have created art within bounds. Or else they have created their own chains.

Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult.

Without a strong cup to carry the emotion, it is only a curiosity. Great art can come to us only in strong cups. Without emotion, there is nothing to carry.

The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Without order there can be no inner satisfaction. Without inner satisfaction there can be no freedom. Without freedom there is no joy.