Art is a kind of illness.

Inspiration is an awakening, a quickening of all man's faculties, and it is manifested in all high artistic achievements.

The music of this opera (Madame Butterfly) was dictated to me by God. I was merely instrumental in getting it on paper and communicating it to the public.

I lived for art, I lived for love

The work comes into the world at an undetermined hour, from a still unknown, but it comes inevitably.

See, the night doth enfold us! See, all the world lies sleeping!

I'm working, but there is so much still to be done! And it frightens me to think of my weight of years. But on we go, without fear or hesitation!

Cold calculation, random spots of color, mathematically exact construction (clearly shown or concealed), drawing that is now silent and now strident . . . . Is this not form?

When life hurts, have a date with your feelings.Breath and let the magic begin!

There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it, but you can't prove that there aren't any, so shouldn't we be agnostic with respect to fairies?

The main source of our wealth is goodness. The affections and the generous qualities that God admires in a world full of greed.

I gave up my childhood for a career.

The cost of pension reforms has been perhaps the biggest error committed in the process of modernizing Bolivia's economy.

I never once regretted doing "True Detective".

You know how there are some stars out there who know how to market themselves? I don't have that.

I'm sure she wants revenge. I'll just try not to let that happen.

Maybe that's the thing I'd been missing about love. You don't withhold it or partition it out when it's deserved. You can't control it like that.

In terms of being a 'sneakerhead,' there was one point where I was obsessively following every sneaker blog. That's the beauty of Twitter: To get the heads up on what's coming out.