1. “Great changes in the direction of peace have often come from people who were no great advocate of peace to begin with.”
2. “Color is touch of the eye, Music to the deaf, A word out of darkness.”
3. “The real choice we have to make is between peace and nationalism.”
4. “All great masters, in their work, seek that profound void within color and outside time.”
5. “Real museums are place where Time is transformed into Space.”
6. “I do not believe in a personal connection to God; that’s where it gets transcendental.”
7. “Immersing oneself in the problems of a book is a good way to keep from thinking of love.”
8. “Do do speak, but only to those who know how to listen.”
9. “Morality is probably the last thing one an learn football.”
10. “Nationalism stems from catastrophes, whether they are caused by earthquakes or lost wars.”
11. “Whatever anybody says, the most important thing in life is to be happy.”
12. “Life is short, and we should respect every moment of it.”
13. “Love is sacred silence.”
14. “The past is always an invented land.”
15. “I need the pain of loneliness to make my imagination work.”
16. “There’s a lot of pride involved in my refusal to believe in god.”
17. “Happiness is laughing together.”
18. “Heaven was the place where you kept alive the dreams of your memories.”
19. “Without patience and the skill of a craftsman, even the greatest talent is wasted.”
20. “Painting taught literature to describe.”
21. “Painting is the silence of thought and the music of sight.”
22. “People only tell lies when there is something they are terribly frightened of losing.”
23. The gap between compassion and surrender is love’s darkest deepest region.”
24. “The snow reminded me of the beauty and mystery of creation, of the essential joy that is life.”
25. “Mankind’s greatest error, the biggest deception of the past thousand years is this: to confuse poverty with stupidity.”
26. “Books, which we mistake for consolation, only add depth to our sorrow.”
27. “The urbanized life has lead to the destruction of the legends.”
28. “What was venerated as style was nothing more than an imperfection or flaw that revealed the guilty hand.”
29. “Clocks and calendars do not exist to remind us of the Time we’ve forgotten but to regulate our relations with others and indeed all of society, and this is how we use them.”
30. “My unhappiness protects me from life.”
