We may divide characters into flat and round.
I am not quite a poet but I am something of the kind.
No two persons ever read the same book.
In times of disorder and stress, the fanatics play a prominent role; in times of peace, the critics. Both are shot after the revolution.
In a sense, one can never read the book that the author originally wrote, and one can never read the same book twice.
The most immoral and disgraceful and dangerous thing that anybody can do in the arts is knowingly to feed back to the public its own ignorance and cheap tastes.
There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.
Very well, but remember this. . . I'll be looking at you when you're laid on the cross and the twelve blows are crashing down on your limbs. When the crowd is finally tired of your screams and wandered home, I will climb up through your blood and sit beside you. I will look deep into your eyes. . . and drop by drop I will trickle my disgust into them like burning acid until. . . finally. . . you perish.
I tend to stay with the panic. I embrace the panic.
We must always be aware of the fact that the body, soul and mind are to be trained simultaneously, for otherwise it would be impossible to gain and maintain the magic equipoise.
The head of the photographer is more important than his camera