We all know artists who like to collaborate, who like to work as a team. It all kind of depends what your habitual working method is.
Wine is not just an object of pleasure, but an object of knowledge; and the pleasure depends on the knowledge.
Beauty is vanishing from our world because we live as though it does not matter.
Freedom can reside only in a point of view, a way of looking upon the system of necessity. Surely this is the one freedom that we may attain to: not to be released from physical reality, but to understand reality and ourselves as part of it, and so be reconciled to what we are.
Creativity is not enough. . . the skill of the true artist is to show the real in the light of the ideal and so transfigure it.
The relation of the soul to the body is like that of a house to its bricks. The soul is a principle of organisation, which governs the flesh and endows it with meaning. It is no more separable from the flesh than is the house from its bricks, even if the soul may survive the gradual replacement of every bodily part.
Marriage does not exist for the benefit of the present generation but for the benefit of the next
I just try things. And the things I like, sometimes they work, and sometimes they don't. You can look at pictures where I just look terrible. But the older I get, the more I know what works. It's for the better.
Everybody has their own ways of wanting to do things.
It's when the thing itself is missing that you have to supply the word.
What we're thinking about is a peaceful planet. We're not thinking about anything else. We're not thinking about any kind of power. We're not thinking about any kind of struggles. We're not thinking about revolution or war or any of that. That's not what we want. Nobody wants to get hurt. Nobody wants to hurt anybody. We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life. A simple life, a good life. And think about moving the whole human race ahead a step, or a few steps.