Life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed by the desire of changing his bed. One would prefer to suffer near the fire and another is certain he would get well if he were by the 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.

Nothing, how little so ever it be, if it is suffered for God’s sake, can pass without merit in the sight of God.

Fame for the lames, fortune for the brains.

When one faces two ghuls, waste no time wishing for fewer.

The power to tax is the power to destroy.

We should not stop to reflect, compare, analyze, possess, but flow on and through, endlessly, like music.

But as a heathen tells us, there is no nation so barbarous, no race so brutish as not to be imbued with the conviction that there is a God.

And what is more generous than a window?

Yeah, well,” Nico said, “not giving people a second thought…that can be dangerous.

Girls take up a lot of room. I had a lot of room for this one.

Making art is nothing but risk, always. If it's not risk, it's no good.