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Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.

Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.

I created nothing; I invented nothing; I imagined nothing; I perverted nothing; I simply discovered drama in real life.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

Perfectionism is the enemy of creation, as extreme self-solicitude is the enemy of well-being.

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

What art offers is space—a certain breathing room for the spirit.

What art offers is space—a certain breathing room for the spirit.

Those move easiest who have learned to dance.

God respects me when I work, but he loves me when I sing.

He who sings frightens away his ills.

Music is a higher revelation than philosophy.

Music is a higher revelation than philosophy.

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

Where words fail, music speaks.

Where words fail, music speaks.

Art extends each man’s short time on earth by carrying from man to man the whole complexity of other men’s lifelong experience, with all its burdens, colors and flavor.

Art extends each man’s short time on earth by carrying from man to man the whole complexity of other men’s lifelong experience, with all its burdens, colors and flavor.

When you take stuff from one writer, it’s plagiarism; but when you take it from many writers it’s research.

Let us read and let us dance—two amusements that will never do any harm to the world.

Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.