If rape or arson, poison or the knifeHas wove no pleasing patterns in the stuffOf this drab canvas we accept as life -It is because we are not bold enough!

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 people living in land of deep darkness have seen a great light.

Sometimes you have to take the good with the bad to get what you need.

I feel that there is reason lurking in you somewhere, so we will patiently grope round for it.

I have never been able to carry out any work coolly. On the contrary it is done, so to speak, with my own blood.

Try as we may to make a silence, we cannot.

Fighting is not internal, but it can be very spiritual. Everything acting is internal. One of my problems in making the transition is pulling back, but I'm working on it.

I think sometimes songwriting becomes diluted when you have lots of components to mask a lack of core.

Our workforce is very co-operative, very flexible, easy to work with and one of the big selling points. The idea that Britain is still back in the labour market of the '70s is utterly bizarre.

Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.

Good art, no matter how simple or casual-seeming, always carries a high density of choice.