I am trying like Klee, to create something that will have a life of its own, that can put me in real danger, a danger which I willingly take on myself.

The problem of political theory is how to combine that degree of individual initiative which is necessary for progress, with the degree of social cohesion which is necessary for survival.

The present challenge to the photographer is to express inner significance through outward form.

The hardest thing is to endure the applause of fools, and patiently suffer the booing, while with the bravissimo of the foolish one would rather strike them between the ears.

The show has to be good because you want to be good. But if it's not good, it doesn't matter.

For it matters not how small the beginning may seem to be: what is once well done is done forever.

Create what you want as opposed to being stuck in what you didn't have.

To be a man, a boy must see a man

Beauty is the vocation bestowed on the artist by the Creator in the gift of artistic talent.

A man is what he is on his knees before God, and nothing more.

Oh, I don't talk about God.