I felt passing over me the wind of the wing of madness.

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.

I love and commit to nourishing my inner child.

When we make judgements we're inevitably acting on limited knowledge, isn't it best to ask if we seek to understand, or simply let them be?

The binding factor between knowing something and doing it is "passion". When your passion is concentrated in what you know, your work output will bind well.

Traveling is so complicated. There are so many people everywhere. I make my best journeys on my couch.

In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort in which our negro servants are forced habitually to live.

Grief is natural,' she said. 'Overcoming it is a matter of choice.

Sometimes I don't like my thighs or stomach, but whenever I get caught up in that, I always focus on the fact that I'm healthy now.

I need to get up and walk around and keep my knees from getting bad, which is what's happening.

Never raise your hand menacingly, but only in a friendly gesture!

I'm an artist; I'm not going to use trigonometry.