"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."
"Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything."
"One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels."
"We must laugh and cry, enjoy and suffer, in a word, vibrate to our full capacity … I think that’s what being really human means."
"Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom."
"One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness."