How difficult it is to be simple.
Have you ever been in love?...in a way.It's always 'in a way.
He had been standing still; for an artist, one of the more painful forms of death.
We are all are cripples in some way.[Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec]
L'arte è fatta per coloro che si sente indegno senza di essa.
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...
Artists thrive on suffering.
[They say I imagine — it is not true — I remember.]
There are neither good nor evil, only the existence and action.
Morality is similar to religion - it is a somniferous drug which blinds people from seeing the squalor of their lives.
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.
There's no love without pain.
There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same books.
Misery is the only thing in the world that has no end or edge.
Everyone has their own personality, its own character, and if he respects that, everything would finally fall over for good only.
A new doctor had been sent for, Lazzaro of Pavia, who had administered to Lorenzo a pulverized mixture of diamonds and pearls. This hitherto infallible medicine had failed to help.
The artist has the liberty to exaggerate, to create in his novel a world more beautiful, more simple, more consoling than ours.
Naći će se drugi papa, ali nikad više neće biti Botičelija.
He...breathed inheavy gulps of air to prove to himself that he was three-dimensional.
All artists are crackpots. And it's their finest feature.