The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated.

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 met Baba Yaga at the end of childhood – past pigtails and fairytales, but not quite ready to give up on make-believe.

Weapons master is giving me special lessons." she (Amily) chuckled. " He calls then How Not To Get Killed lessons.

Geniuses are their own saviors.

Everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody thinks of changing himself.

We best avoid wars by taking even physical action to stop small ones.

Ahimsa is an attribute of the brave. Cowardice and ahimsa don't go together any more that water and fire.

God wants man to fulfill his commands as a human being and with the quality peculiar to human beings.

The only possibility in the United States for a humane society would be a revolution with Elvis Presley as leader.

You are God. You are not the ego. You are God!

Painting is a kind of call and response. During the act of painting one is listening, paying attention to a self, a voice simultaneously recognizable and foreign.