In art, there is one thing which does not receive sufficient attention. The element which is left to the human will is not nearly so large as people think.

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'm a firm believer in learning by heart.

An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.

Quentin Tarantino is interested in watching somebody's ear getting cut off; David Lynch is interested in the ear.

I was born at six months, and I weighed 900 grams [less than two pounds]. I have a very heroic birth story.

I've always thought that we, as human beings, would be naive and arrogant to pretend that we're the only life form in the galaxy.

I like to dress up every day, so I think fashion is an everyday process.

You speak bad of me, I score goals.

A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.

Ever since I was a child I've felt connected to water: lakes, rivers, streams--I love to jump in and swim around. But it's the ocean where I go for rejuvenation, revelation, and solace.

I'm damn near 37 years old, and I'm jumping up and down on the bed like my 10-year-old. I was a wild man