Form is a special reaction of matter under pressure.
I have never met a woman who was both beautiful and elegant — these are mutually exclusive traits.
…I knew the hour of great trial was approaching, the great trial of love…
Willpower is not given the right to rule over us.
Tell me, why should a person behave exactly like other people, like the masses, like the crowd?
According to the law of compensation, the postulate of the instability of equilibrium, and the principle of heterogeneity, a lack of something eventually creates a new system of relationships.
Life is harsh… but it is illuminated by the light of eternity.
Irony is an essential aesthetic component of thinking.
I do not seek, I find.
Next to history, politics is nothing more than an anecdote.
A true hero is always on his own. A hero is one thing, a servant another.
A work of art does not awaken any feelings in me. When I look at a masterpiece, I go into ecstasy over what I can learn from it. It never occurs to me to dissolve into sentimentality.
No matter what nonsense you spout, there is always a grain of truth in it. A bitter truth.
While everyone is staring at my mustache, I hide behind it and do my work.
Parties are held for those who are not invited.
People usually think that bad taste cannot produce anything worthwhile. Wrong. Good taste is what renders artists barren. Look at the French — their addiction to good taste has made them completely lazy.
Error is from God. Therefore, do not try to correct a mistake. On the contrary, try to understand it, absorb its meaning, adapt to it. And liberation will come.
Do not try to cover up your mediocrity with intentionally sloppy painting — it will reveal itself in the very first brushstroke.
Do not fear perfection. You will never reach it.
If you keep thinking, “I am a genius,” eventually you will become a genius.
Submit to that which you are not obliged to submit to.
One must accept a person as he is: with all his filth, with death included.
So humanity will reach outer space — so what? What use is space to man if he has no access to eternity?
