Delacroix was passionately in love with passion, but coldly determined to express passion as clearly as possible.

Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.

Nothing can be done except little by little.

To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts.

God is the only being who, in order to reign, doesn't even need to exist.

Dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music

The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep.

The devil's finest trick is to persuade you that he does not exist.

One should always be drunk. That's all that matters...But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk.

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.

Music fathoms the sky.

If reality is as equally valuable as fiction, then you should just chalk up the parts of the past you don’t need to your imagination

My mother is quite the character. You'd hate her. Sometimes I think I hate her too, but mainly I feel sorry for her. Which is kind of worse.

start something, with a knowledge to end it.

Each of your breaths is a priceless jewel, since each of them is irreplaceable and once gone, can never be retrieved.

I am also deeply concerned with the widespread, often undiagnosed, incidents of PTSD and the alarming suicide rates amongst our returning soldiers.

Compassion to an offender who has grossly violated the laws is, in effect, a cruelty to the peaceable subject who has observed them.

As soon as I began to earn what might be called fairly large sums, I bought a car and began to explore the country around New York.

One of the wonderful things about Oprah: She teaches you to keep on stepping.

The only reason people die, is because EVERYONE does it. You all just go along with it. It's RUBBISH, death. It's STUPID. I don't want nothing to do with it.

If one has to earn a living, therefore, the safest occupation is that most remote from the arts.