"We do not seek to enlighten our time, or to improve it, or to instruct it, but by revealing to it our own suffering and our own dreams we try to open to it again and again the world of images, the world of the soul, the world of experience."

"I am thinking less than before of a doctor. Psychoanalysis is too basic a help for me, it helps once and for all, it clears out, and to find myself cleared out one day would perhaps be even more hopeless than this disorder."

Dearest, much honored master, when one has a very dark childhood behind one, in which the everyday resembles walking in dank cold streets...

"L’espace de la création du mélancolique correspond, selon Agamben, au « nigredo » de l’alchimie, lieu de passage, de transformation..."

"Pour ces êtres atteints d’ « insécurité ontologique », il faut tâcher de puiser en soi-même le moyen d’être authentiquement."

« Comment peut-on vivre, quand tous les éléments de cette vie nous restent absolument impénétrables ? » Rilke

"Aujourd'hui, je voulais te parler un peu de Cézanne...."

"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"

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

"... the old master to whom one might well apply the words he himself used to describe Pissarro: humble and colossal."

"Just as the artist needs a space in which to work, the artist also opens a space with the work of art."