I was absent at the moment I took up the most space.
We all have a weakness for beauty.
Madness such as this, its like trying to stop a fire with the moisture from a kiss.
Ironic philosophies produce passionate works.
One might think, that a period which, within fifty years, uproots, enslaves or kills seventy million human beings, should only, and forthwith, be condemned. But also its guilt must be understood.
This work is an attempt to understand the time I live in.
People have played on words and pretended to believe that refusing to grant a meaning to life necessarily leads to declaring that it is not worth living. In truth, there is no necessary common measure between these two judgments.
The principles which men give to themselves end by overwhelming their noblest intentions.
There is so much stubborn hope in the human heart.
The look of success, when it is worn a certain way, would infuriate a jackass.
In art, rebellion is consummated and perpetuated in the act of real creation, not in criticism or commentary.
To create today is to create dangerously. Any publication is an act, and that act exposes one to the passions of an age that forgives nothing.
Find your happiness in yourself.
Believe me, the hardest thing for a man to give up is that which he really doesn’t want, after all.
In Italian museums are sometimes found little painted screens that the priest used to hold in front of the face of condemned men to hide the scaffold from them.
He seemed so certain about everything, didn’t he? And yet none of his certainties was worth one hair of a woman’s head. He wasn’t even sure he was alive, because he was living like a dead man.
On the ridge where the great artist moves forward, every step is an adventure, an extreme risk. In that risk, however, and only there, lays the freedom of Art.
Likewise and during every day of an unillustrious life, time carries us. But a moment always comes when we have to carry it.
I make myself strict rules in order to correct my nature. But it is my nature that i finally obey.
The danger of lectures is that they create the illusion of teaching for teachers, and the illusion of learning for learners.