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My horizon on humanity is enlarged by reading the writers of poems, seeing a painting, listening to some music, some opera, which has nothing at all to do with a volatile human condition or struggle or whatever. It enriches me as a human being.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself.

Fear is a problem with film music and films; people want to be conventional, and there’s more commercialism today. If you are not daring in your art, you’re bankrupt.

Painting is a blind man’s profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.

I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

All my pictures are built around the idea of getting in trouble and so giving me the chance to be desperately serious in my attempt to appear as a normal little gentleman.

Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.

While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.