Faith makes the discords of the present the harmonies of the future.
We all have the republican spirit in our veins, like syphilis in our bones. We are democratized and venerealized.
To dream magnificently is not a gift given to all men, and even for those who possess it, it runs a strong risk of being progressively diminished by the ever-growing dissipation of modern life and by the restlessness engendered by material progress. The ability to dream is a divine and mysterious ability; because it is through dreams that man communicates with the shadowy world which surrounds him. But this power needs solitude to develop freely; the more one concentrates, the more one is likely to dream fully, deeply.
Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.
You have to be always drunk. That's all there is to it-it's the only way. So as not to feel the horrible burden of time that breaks your back and bends you to the earth, you have to be continually drunk. But on what? Wine, poetry or virtue, as you wish. But be drunk.
Nothing can be done except little by little.
To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts.
If I could have been a marine biologist I would have, but I didn't have that kind of intelligence. Numbers were never my strong point.
When you want it the most, there's no easy way out. When you're ready to go, and your heart's left in doubt. Don't give up on your faith, love comes to those who believe it. . . And that's the way it is.
In many cases, ignorance is a good thing : the mind retains its freedom of investigation and does not stray along roads that lead nowhither, suggested by one's reading. I have experienced this once again. . . . Yes, ignorance can have its advantages; the new is found far from the beaten track.
I think the shows are better when I feel like myself.