In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men.

The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated.

The world only goes round by misunderstanding.

An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportion.

Any newspaper, from the first line to the last, is nothing but a web of horrors, I cannot understand how an innocent hand can touch a newspaper without convulsing in disgust.

I got in and I got situated at the home, went for lunch with my host family. I'm going to take it light today. Get some putting in, work on the short game and get a good workout in.