The artist is today and has been for many years, despite his absence of merit, simply a spoiled child. So many honors, so much money bestowed on men without souls and without education.

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.

If you never get your heart broken, you'll never learn to love.

I don't trust anyone... It's something that I have to live with, and I have to find the balance of who I want in my life and who isn't good for me.

Music scores your life. You interact with it. It becomes the soundtrack to that one summer with that one girl.

Anything that is conceivable is possible.

Poetry can be the bridge, the crossover point in the mind between the physical and the spiritual. A place where the two can meet.

Filmmakers get into trouble when they're watching too many DVDs and quoting all the time.

We have the deepest respect and reverence for Islam and all who share the faith of Islam.

Life has two halves: one patient and one afire. Love is the fiery half. Make me, O Lord, food for the flames.

The problem is always sin, and the answer is always the Gospel.

When a profit-seeking company proposes to take citizens' private land away for its own gain, people should stand up for their rights.