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...
He had been standing still; for an artist, one of the more painful forms of death.
To try to understand another human being, to grapple for his ultimate depths, that is the most dangerous of human endeavors.
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...
Erezia unei generații este ortodoxia generației următoare.
Cardinal Giovanni still did not like delicate matters; they were usually painful.
Nature always resists the artist at the beginning.
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...
Alla guerra di amor vince chi fugge.
Who loves — lives, who lives - works, and who works has some bread.
He...breathed inheavy gulps of air to prove to himself that he was three-dimensional.
Being mad is even pleasant. But only a madman understands that.
The artist has the liberty to exaggerate, to create in his novel a world more beautiful, more simple, more consoling than ours.
Morality is similar to religion - it is a somniferous drug which blinds people from seeing the squalor of their lives.
Everyone has their own personality, its own character, and if he respects that, everything would finally fall over for good only.
Actually, Paris wakes up when it comes time for aperitif.
Toată marea literatură are un caracter universal. Altfel piere.
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.
There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same books.
Religion will never show the way.