We don't have an explanation for everything that happens. We don't control almost anything. And if we are not open to that mystery, life becomes so small.
By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes.
Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its highest. Live in fragments no longer
History develops, art stands still.
Love and understand the Italians, for the people are more marvellous than the land.
When I think of what life is, and how seldom love is answered by love; it is one of the moments for which the world was made.
To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.
No, I try not to be a negative thinker.
The greatest fool is he who thinks he is not one and all others are.
Photography has arrived at the point where it is capable of liberating painting from all literature, from the anecdote, and even from the subject. In any case, a certain aspect of the subject now belongs to the domain of photography. So shouldn't painters profit from their newly acquired liberty, and make use of it to do other things?
There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.