From this vantage point he came to a realization that everything that had happened to him before this had been a journey upward through time, everything that occurred after it a descent. If he could n...
To try to understand another human being, to grapple for his ultimate depths, that is the most dangerous of human endeavors.
Erezia unei generații este ortodoxia generației următoare.
Cardinal Giovanni still did not like delicate matters; they were usually painful.
Who loves — lives, who lives - works, and who works has some bread.
Being mad is even pleasant. But only a madman understands that.
Lorenzo il Magnifico, the Plato Four, the humanists had taught him that man was the center of the universe; and this was never more demonstrable that when he stood looking upward and found himself, a...
Nature always resists the artist at the beginning.
There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same books.
They had painted in a grand rush to keep intact the purity of their first impression, the mood in which the motif had been conceived.
He had been standing still; for an artist, one of the more painful forms of death.
Toată marea literatură are un caracter universal. Altfel piere.
Morality is similar to religion - it is a somniferous drug which blinds people from seeing the squalor of their lives.
No man is born into the world whose work is not born with him.
Our secret thoughts - do they ever show up? The small flame of our soul can be burning hot, but no one comes to its warmth. Passersby see only a small whiff going through the chimney. Don't we need to...
He...breathed inheavy gulps of air to prove to himself that he was three-dimensional.
آیا معنی هنرمند بودن، فروختن است؟من خیال می کردم هنرمند کسی است که دائما می جوید بدون اینکه کاملا بیابد. فکر می کردم که مفهوم آن، مخالف «میدانم، آن را یافتم» است. وقتی می گویم که من هنرمندم، فقط مقصود...
His personal fulfillment did not lead him to evolve a cheerful Madonna; on the contrary this Madonna was sad; she had already, through his sculptures, known the Descent. The tranquility of his early b...
Actually, Paris wakes up when it comes time for aperitif.
When I compare myself to the other fellows there is something stiff and awkward about me; I look as if I had been in prison for ten years.
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