We love the things we love for what they are.
Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one’s head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
Where words leave off, music begins.
What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life.
Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard, are sweeter.
Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.
I’m in love with cities I’ve never been to and people I’ve never met.
If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only ways I know it. Is there any other way?
The human body is the best work of art.
Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know.
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.
I don't do fashion, I AM fashion.
Beauty will save the world.
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
Elegance is refusal.
Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world’s great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs. I am haunted by waters.