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It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.

We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.

My mother said to me, ‘If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.’ Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.

Art is an attempt to integrate evil.

Sometimes I do get to places just when God’s ready to have somebody click the shutter.

I believe every chess player senses beauty, when he succeeds in creating situations, which contradict the expectations and the rules, and he succeeds in mastering this situation.

I’m a total performer.

The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.

With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.

Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.