We are sparks that must glow as brightly as possible.

Everything is in constant flux, from state to state, from good to bad and back again... only in transmutation, perpetual motion, lies truth.

A creative train of thought is set off by: the unexpected, the unknown, the accidental, the disorderly, the absurd, the impossible.

We are not disillusioned because we have no illusions... What we have and what is our strength, is our joy in life... in all its amoral aspects. That is also the basis of our contemporary art.

Beautiful, ugly, impressive, disgusting, meaningless, grim, contradictory etc … It makes no difference, as long as it is life, vigorously pouring forth.

To break and be able to grow together again in a better way: that is the difficult art.

The significance of something lies in its presence here and now. I don't care what it has been or what it will become. It is the experience of things that matters, the confrontation with things.

Being an artist is being an isolated individual.

To make the material speak to man in the name of man, this is the aim and reality of art.

The artist's interest cannot be restricted to a single field; he must seek the highest perception of everything, of the whole and its details.

I act with full responsibility and after extensive reflection.

A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.

By betrayal, I mean promising to be on your side, then being on somebody else's.

Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves.

I would not trust a mouse to a woman if a man's judgment could be had.

I love looking completely different and that my fans won't always know what I'm going to do.

But the nuclear powers still cling tenaciously to their weapons.

I've been playing since I was 5, but I wouldn't say that I'm serious about the piano.

The most important thing to do is to set goals. Training is a waste of time if you don't have goals.

Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.

Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.