...an industry which can furnish results identical to nature must be the absolute in art.

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.

The essence of every single person on this planet it God.

Kids can handle a lot more than you think they can. It's when they get to be grown up that you have to start worrying.

Most writers need to write. I write for money, really. If I won the lottery, I would never write another word. I would rather read.

Man is simply playing by nature's rules,and art is man's attempt to imitate the beauty of the Creator's hand

A man does not go to a woman to get his strength; he goes to her to offer it.

I'm always hungry for people.

OS X is sweet: it's simple and intuitive, and I think GNOME shares a lot of values with it.

That's the beauty of this great sport (track), though-it's such a fine line between success or not, which makes the sweet moments that much more worth savoring.

I believe when you bring, say, a plant into a room, everything in that room changes in relation to it. This tension - tension is the only word for it - can be painted.

I'm looking forward to being old, to be able to accept what I am and become self-sufficient. Mid-forties is a good age and it's not too far away.