"Music fathoms the sky."

"An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportion."

"What is art? Prostitution."

"Our religion is itself profoundly sad - a religion of universal anguish, and one which, because of its very catholicity, grants full liberty to the individual and asks no better than to be celebrated in each man's own language - so long as he knows anguish and is a painter."

"Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history therefore we must be saved by faith."

"The essence of creativity is the belief that the beauty of life is found in its imperfections."

"In the depths of adversity, authenticity is the rarest and most beautiful asset."

"I always find beauty in things that are odd and imperfect - they are much more interesting."