“Only passions, and great passions, can raise the soul to great things. Without them there is no sublimity, either in morals or in creativity. Art returns to infancy, and virtue becomes small-minded.”

Two qualities essential for the artist: moralityand perspective.

One composition is meagre, though it has many figures; another is rich, though it has few.

Jacques said that his master said that everything good or evil we encounter here below was written on high.

The most dangerous madmen are those created by religion, and people whose aim is to disrupt society always know how to make good use of them on occasion.

I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it.

It is raining bombs on the house of the Lord. I go in fear and trembling lest one of these terrible bombers gets into difficulties.

Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off.

All children are essentially criminal.

If you disturb the colors of the rainbow, the rainbow is no longer beautiful.

To say that man is a compound of strength and weakness, light and darkness, smallness and greatness, is not to indict him, it is to define him.

Does anyone really know where they’re going to?

Bad company is as instructive as licentiousness. One makes up for the loss of one’s innocence with the loss of one’s prejudices.

The blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me.

And his hands would plait the priest’s entrails, For want of a rope, to strangle kings.

The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action.

There is only one duty; that is to be happy.

Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.

Being an artist is more of a mindset, a way of seeing things; it is no longer so much about producing something.

Food makes my mind sluggish.

The body achieves what the mind believes.

Excuse me if I have some place in my mind where I go time to time.

I wouldn’t want to get stuck being an oldie-goldie group, but I don’t mind. I think all the trouble you go through these days to go to one of these concerts, I think I owe them a bit of what they came to hear.

An artist, if he is truly an artist, is only interested in one thing and that is to wake up the minds of men, to have mankind and womankind realize that there is something greater than what we see on the surface.

Aging is a matter of mind. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.