Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.

Being an artist means, not reckoning and counting, but ripening like the tree which does not force its sap and stands confidence in the storms of spring without fear that after them may come no summer

Nothing touches a work of art so little as criticism.

I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.

Shattered people are best represented by bits and pieces.

Do continue to believe that with your feeling and with your work you are taking part in the greatest; the more strongly you cultivate in yourself this belief, the more will reality and world go forth from it.

As if no one had ever tried before, try to say what you see and feel and love and lose.