His imagination was always more real than the reality of daily life.

It's only artists who know how to use their eyes

In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.

Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today

There is a difference between twenty-nine and thirty. When you are twenty-nine it can be the beginning of everything. When you are thirty it can be the end of everything.

Well, thank you. I do exercise in fact I am an exercise freak. Can't do without my regular work out. I'm not letting you in on any more of my secrets!

Beethoven was ahead of the times, Bach behind them.

I cannot think of a day in my life when the library didn’t exert a potent attraction for me, offering a sense of the specialness of each individual’s curiosity and his or her quest to satisfy it.

One who knows how to appreciate color relationships, the influence of one color with another, their contrasts and dissonances, is promised an infinite variety of images.

You cannot become a master until you actually take the leap, do the work, make several thousand mistakes, and live to tell about it.

Grinning like a necrophiliac in a morgue.