Japan can't get anything on the market very cheaply because it has a large, relatively highly paid workforce which you can't fire.
There are no fascinating people, only their works are fascinating.
Don't be too dismissive of children. While it's true that few children are artists, all artists are children.
Arguably, no artist grows up: If he sheds the perceptions of childhood, he ceases being an artist.
If music could be translated into human speech, it would no longer need to exist.
Divine fires do not blaze each day but an artist functions in their afterglow, hoping for their recurrence.
Inspiration could be called inhaling the memory of an act never experienced.
I don't remember a time when I wasn't waiting for a scab either to grow or to fall off my knee.
I have a real passion for bones. I have many others in Boisgeloup: skeletons of birds, dog's and sheep's heads. I even have a rhinoceros skull.
The peoples of the earth are one family.
If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief.