He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.

Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?

Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.

Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.

Truth is in things, and not in words.

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

I believe art is utterly important. It is one of the things that could save us.

We do not judge great art. It judges us.

Art is a unifying language for all of us from across the world, and it transcends boundaries.

Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.

Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see.