Where ever I am not is the place where I am myself.

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.

Our willingness to suffer for the sake of the perception of freedom is remarkable.

The most vital things in the look of a landscape endure only for a moment. Work should be done from memory

One does not travel, any more than one falls in love, to collect material. It is simply part of one's life...

I think I suffer from body dysmorphia - I don't see what other people see.

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.

I haven’t always been thrilled with my work. But the fear of not proving the people wrong who think you can’t emerge from a franchise and do well, that’s a very strong driving force.

Its really easy to get colors right. Its really hard to get black - and neutrals - right. Black is certainly a color but its also an illusion.

These feelings you engender in me, my lord, are most indelicate. You should stop causing them immediately.

Good travel books are novels at heart.

What I want from each and every one of you is a hard-target search of every gas station, residence, warehouse, farmhouse, henhouse, outhouse and doghouse in that area.