"My holy of holies is the human body, health, intelligence, talent, inspiration, love, and the most absolute freedom."

"The greatest thing in the world is for a man to know that he is his own."

[Tableaux / Paintings]

"The shepherd prince's pursuit stands for the human heart's pursuit of Beauty, or Truth, Happiness, Love, Light."

[Essays and documentaries on Hieronymus Bosch's work]

"Evenings on the way home he gets angry at some change, arrives in a rage and promises himself: I will stay at home; work, nothing but work"

[Documentaries, talks and analyses on Paul Cezanne's works]

"Your sensitive, responsive soul is seeking to escape from the maze of... Yes, the struggle is terrific, titanic. But do not lose heart !"

"For Goethe the flower is so much alive that it speaks and warns him; and he solves the problem differently from either Tennyson or Basho."

"Let me say to you now that to do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual."

{Alexandre Cabanel (1823 – 1889)}

“O Egypt, Egypt, of your reverent deeds only stories will survive, and they will be incredible to your children !"

"Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Turn the old."

"One day Dostoevsky threw out the enigmatic remark: “Beauty will save the world”. What sort of a statement is that ?"

"Multitude, solitude: identical terms, and interchangeable by the active and fertile poet."

[Extracts] "The value of solitude — one of its values — is, of course, that there is nothing to cushion against attacks from within..."

[Extract]  "I am learning to see. Why, I cannot say, but all things enter more deeply into me..."

"It is my turn thank you for the "Harz Journey in Winter". Not the Brahms version .. but for the Goethe poem, which is pure splendor." Rilke

"Scathing letters are all right, but they should be directed and stamped, then burned just before they are trusted to the mails..."

[William Blake - "Clarence's Dream", 1774 (Shakespeare, Richard III, Act 1, Scene 4)]

"Modern capitalism needs men who cooperate smoothly in large numbers, who want to consume more and more and whose tastes are standardized."

"Whether or not we are aware of it, there is nothing of which we are more ashamed than of not being ourselves."

[Quotes] "People are disturbed not by the things which happen, but by the opinions about the things."

[African Spir : Quotes / Citations]