The only really Christian art is that which, like St. Francis, does not fear being wedded to poverty. This rises far above art-as-ornament.
Man: The most complex of beings, and thus the most dependent of beings. On all that made you up, you depend.
Nothing blocks happiness like happiness remembered.
Without mysticism man can achieve nothing great.
Not everyone can be an orphan.
At times is it seems that I am living my life backward, and that at the approach of old age my real youth will begin. My soul was born covered with wrinkles. Wrinkles my ancestors and parents most assiduously put there and that I had the greatest trouble removing.
The great artist is one whom constraint exalts, for whom the obstacle is a springboard.
The reasons that drive me to write are many and the most important are the most secret, I think. Perhaps most of all this: to put something out of death's reach.
If only we could lean over the soul we love and see as in a mirror the image we cast!
The important thing is being capable of emotions, but to experience only one's own would be a sorry limitation.
I intend to bring you strength, joy, courage, perspicacity, defiance.
An artist cannot get along without a public; and when the public is absent, what does he do? He invents it, and turning his back on his age, he looks toward the future for what the present denies.
Sadness is a state of sin.
What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it; what another would have written as well, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself - and thus make yourself indispensable.
The work of art is the exaggeration of an idea.
It is only through restraint that man can manage not to suppress himself.
They establish distinctions and reserves which I cannot apply to myself, for I exist only as a whole; my only claim is to be natural, and the pleasure I feel in an action, I take as a sign that I ought to do it.
Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
The individual person is more interesting than people in general; he and not they is the one whom God created in His image.
Most often it happens that one attributes to others only the feelings of which one is capable oneself.
The belief that becomes truth for me... is that which allows me the best use of my strength, the best means of putting my virtues into action.
Art that submits to orthodoxy, to even the soundest doctrines, but lacks imagination and deep self-expression is lost leaving only the craftsmanship.
Often with good sentiments we produce bad literature.
It is with noble sentiments that bad literature gets written.
Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences.
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