“A melody occurs to you; you sing it silently, inwardly ... ; you steep your being in it; it takes possession of all your strength and emotions, and during the time it lives in you, it effaces all t...”

“To hear for the duration of a heartbeat the universe and the totality of life in its mysterious, innate harmony.”

“Pronto me di cuenta de que estas enseanzas podan ser un consuelo slo para los que las aceptaran literalmente y que creyeran ser la verdad. Si fueran, como para m, en parte bella literatura, parte s...”

“On one part of the footpath where a thin trickle of water from a small spring kept it damp, I found a swarm of small, blue butterflies drinking the water. I only went that way on sunny days and ...”

“I was not a good scholar, and during my last year at school I made little effort. This was not due to laziness , but to a state of youthful day-dreaming and indifference that was only pierced wh...”

“desires are not killed by fulfilling them”

“To create art with all the passion in one's soul is to live art with all the beauty in one's heart.”

“art is risk made visible”

“Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.”

“The best incentive for an artist are the harshest criticism”

“I have no idea how to be an artist and a lover, so I chose the one most likely to make me happy when I'm eighty and gazing back on a long and productive life.”

“Artists strive to free this true and spontaneous self in their work. Creativity, meditation are ways of freeing an inner voice.”