It is better to repent a sin than regret the loss of a pleasure.

And with tears of blood he cleansed the hand, The hand that held the steel: For only blood can wipe out blood, And only tears can heal

I like Wagner's music better than anybody's. It is so loud that one can talk the whole time without other people hearing what one says.

It is art, and art only, that reveals us to ourselves.

sorrow...is a wound that bleeds when any hand but that of love touches it

A subject that is beautiful in itself gives no suggestion to the artist. It lacks imperfection.

We live, I regret to say, in an age of Big Data hype.