
"A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession."
"A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world."
"A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened."
"After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books."
"Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face."
"An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself."
"Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower."
"Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time."
"But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?"
"Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question."
"Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny."
"Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being."
"Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better."
"How hard, how bitter it is to become a man!"
"It is not your paintings I like, it is your painting."
"Stupidity has a knack of getting its way."
"The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind."
"Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators."
"Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil."
"Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others."
"Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies."
"You cannot create experience. You must undergo it."
"You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life."
