My mother's great line was, Grasp the nettle with two hands, girl, because if you don't somebody else will.
I think any hardship is better than pretending to do what one is paid for, and never really doing it.
Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.
Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.
People glorify all sorts of bravery except the bravery they might show on behalf of their nearest neighbors.
Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.
All passion becomes strength when it has an outlet.
We are not the only animal that mourns; apes do, and elephants, and dogs. Yet we are the only one that tortures.
I think everybody's crazy, and if I'm the one being a little direct about it, that's fine by me.
When you are confronted with challenges that are difficult to conquer or you have questions arise, the answers to which you do not know, hold fast to the things you do know. Hang on to your firmest foundation, however limited that may be, and from that position of strength face the unknown.
Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.