I love the clouds... the clouds that pass by... over there... over there... those lovely clouds!

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 more I seek, the less I find.

Love is our basement. Trust is our strength.

When we allow people to fellowship with us, God welcomes us into fellowshipping with Him

Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

I rather mistrust young men who slip into life gracefully.

We lose the fear of making decisions great and small as we realize that should our choice prove wrong we can if we will learn from the experience.

I have a strong art-history background.

Those beings only are fit for solitude who are like nobody, and are liked by nobody.

New Zealand is the only country I know well enough to write about. It can sometimes lead to complications.

Solitude gives you the ideas and the motivation to make you want to collaborate.