"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."
"Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings."
"Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live."
"An author in his book must be like God in the universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere."
"Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom."