He who looks through an open window sees fewer things than he who looks through a closed window.

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.

Writers are highly resistant to reality. Just as well or the human condition would go undocumented.

Sometimes life is nothing more that a mere constant battle of tug and war between what's best for you and what makes you happy.

Freedom is will-power to define my path.

Some people are naturally good, you know, and others are not. I'm one of the others.

As we explore ways to bring price relief and bolster our country's energy independence, one significant energy source has emerged as a potential solution, hydrogen fuel cells.

If some student came up and wanted to know where to study painting, you'd want to suggest someplace, but there's no place. I wouldn't know where to send a student to study.

Sometimes, God may prioritize performing a miracle on our hearts and minds over a miracle concerning our circumstances.

I remember when I was a kid I used to come home from Sunday School and my mother would get drunk and try to make pancakes

You have chosen the wrong path if it's not fun. And you are probably not taking enough risk if it's not hard and rocky sometimes.

I realized what an artist is and what it is to be an artist.