How many times had those awful words - "I know what I'm doing" - been uttered throughout history as prelude to disaster?
Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!
Wherever I go I need a period of incubation so that I may learn the essence of nature, which never wishes to be understood or yield herself.
What still concerns me the most is: am I on the right track, am I making progress, am I making mistakes in art?
A young man who is unable to commit a folly is already an old man.
Do not copy nature too much. Art is an abstraction.
Art = a mad search for individualism.
Fitting people with books is about as difficult as fitting them with shoes.
You've got to be good to each other. . . it really comes back to respect. I was raised in a very Catholic, Italian family and it was all about respect. Don't talk badly about [your partner] the second they walk out the door; really preserve your relationship and be good to each other. Treat it like gold.
It is convenient to distinguish the two kinds of experience which have thus been described, the experienc-ing and the experienc-ed, by technical words.
I came seriously close to getting married four times, and each time I backed off in fear or for one reason or another. Each occasion was different, but in hindsight when I look at the people involved, it wasn't a bad thing what I did. I think it may have been more complex had the marriage taken place.