“Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness nothing but faith, faith and freedom.”

“The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.”

“Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.”

“There are neither good nor bad subjects. From the point of view of pure Art, you could almost establish it as an axiom that the subject is irrelevant, style itself being an absolute manner of seeing things.”

“Of all lies, art is the least untrue.”

“The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.”

“The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.”

“Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.”

“One must always hope when one is desperate, and doubt when one hopes.”

“Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.”

“The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.”

“I love my work with a frenetic and perverse love, as an ascetic loves the hair shirt which scratches his belly.”

“The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful one must sense him everywhere but never see him.”

“Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.”

“The better a work is, the more it attracts criticism it is like the fleas who rush to jump on white linens.”