The beauty of sorrow is superior to the beauty of life.

The essence of art that is at all noble is the DREAM, and this dream dwells only upon what is distant, absent, vanished, unattainable.

There are women whose love only ends with death.

The main thing for inner contentment is to be in a state of grace. And there is an artistic state of grace, for art is a kind of religion.

Dissonance is as fatal in ailments of the mind as it is in those of the body.

Can there be anything more sad than a girl dying on the day of her first communion, in her new dress. A little bride of death.

Can there be anything more sad than a girl dying on the day of her first communion, in her new dress. A little bride of death...

The pale water which goes away along paths of silence.

...without knowing why, he yielded to the temptation of those lips and flung onto them, eating them, partaking of their sacrament... Eucharist of love with a red host!

Oh, the joy of the arrival of a child, which is both the one and the other, a mirror in which husband and wife, who love each other, can see each other in one single face.

Dreams do not bear fruits unless the weather conditions are favourable. Your positive mentality makes your dreams germinate

Everyone is taught that angels have wings - the lucky ones of us find that they have 4 paws.

We need to make the private public.

I don't get nothing but love. In every ghetto all over the world. Nothing but love. They respect that I came outta there and I'm doing it the right way. You can't do nothing but respect that.

To enjoy enduring success we should travel a little in advance of the world.

A bad habit never disappears miraculously, it's an undo-it-yourself project.

All clean and comfortable I sit down to write.

I always wanted to design for films.

My rule is to break one sweat a day.

And so my militant philosophy is this: to make with a brush on canvas is a simple direct delight-to make with the movie is the same.