To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature

The main thing is to be moved, to love, to hope, to tremble, to live. Be a man before being an artist!

Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.

Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is animated.

The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation.

The more simple we are, the more complete we become.

The work of art is already within the block of marble. I just chop off whatever isn't needed.

Patience is also a form of action.

Love your calling with passion, it is the meaning of your life.

The human body is first and foremost a mirror to the soul and its greatest beauty comes from that.

Art is the pleasure of a spirit that enters nature and discovers that it too has a soul.

Stay positive, all other choices are pointless punishments to your psyche.

Kindness never use harsh words its touch warmth the needy person.

I hate Bangladesh, because it tortures my motherland.

The number of opera houses around the world and the high attendance rates show that opera an art form that is more popular than ever.

It is for this, partly, that I write. How can I know what I think unless I see what I write.

Hell is given up so reluctantly by those who don't expect to go there

A multitude is strong while it holds together, but so soon as each of those who compose it begins ro think of his own private danger, it becomes weak and contemptible.

I'm not really interested in the exploding car or endless sort of dystopian fantasies and superheroes. None of that... that doesn't interest me very much.

Be always restless, unsatisfied, unconforming. Whenever a habit becomes convenient, smash it! The greatest sin of all is satisfaction.

We're comic. We're all comics. We live in a comic time. And the worse it gets the more comic we are.