Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.

Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it; that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one.

There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.

It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.

Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.

Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.

'Therefore' is a word the poet must not know.

It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.

Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.

The color of truth is gray.

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.