"Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune."

"We can neither put back the clock nor slow down our forward speed, and as we are already flying pilotless, on instrument controls, it is even too late to ask where we are going."

"One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles."

"I was not a 'revolutionary' in the sense of a man with a message. The only thing I was aware of was that I was doing my work, and that it was a question of going forward."

"I have always been a lonely man. I have always been a solitary man. I have always been a man who has lived in his own world."