Great artists have no country.

There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow.

The blood of my motherland waters a magic plant that cures all ills. That plant is art, and sometimes art needs corruption as a kind of fertilizer

Romanticism is the abuse of adjectives

The most despairing songs are the most beautiful, and I know some immortal ones that are pure tears.

How glorious it is - and also how painful - to be an exception.