If I am more alive because love burns and chars me, as a fire, given wood or wind, feels new elation, it's that he who lays me low is my salvation, and invigorates the more, the more he scars me.

What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful than the garment with which it is clothed?

If you knew how much work went into it, you wouldn't call it genius.

It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.

Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.

Critique by creating.

No thought is born in me that does not bear the image of death.

The sculpture is already complete within the marble block, before I start my work. It is already there, I just have to chisel away the superfluous material.

As when, O lady mine, With chiselled touchThe stone unhewn and coldBecomes a living mould, The more the marble wastes, The more the statue grows.

AS YOU GIVE OUT SO SHALL YOU RECEIVE.

All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.

Religion in art was a subtle business, best handled indirectly.

You tell anyone that I cried, and I'll cut your liver out." "Do you even know where a human liver resides?"[...] "Yes," she said, and punched him in it.

Fame is cool but I believe in success.

We have within reach, now, the attainment of almost every dream of mankind.

I don't want to pass through life like a smooth plane ride.

I shall stick to my resolution of writing always what I think no matter whom it offends.

That's why they call you Seer. You see more than most.

A warrior of the Light does not rely on strength alone; he makes use of his opponent's energy, too.

Cats are a very mysterious kind of folk. There is always more passing in their minds than we are aware of.