Words worth keeping

But he who dares not grasp the thorn Should never crave the rose.

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.

You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion.

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.

Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you.

My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.

Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

People worry about kids playing with guns, and teenagers watching violent videos; we are scared that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands - literally thousands - of songs about broken hearts and rejection and pain and misery and loss.

I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go. Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.

One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.

The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.