“music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light”

“the colour of my soul is iron-grey and sadbats wheel about the steeple of my dreams.”

“How much has to be explored and discarded before reaching the naked flesh of feeling.”

“People don't very much like things that are beautiful.. they are so far from their nasty little minds.”

“Listen to no one's advice except that of the wind in the trees. That can recount the whole history of mankind...”

“even if our entire audiovisual legacy were to be lost in a power cut, we would still be able to read books in the light from the sun, or in the evening by a candlelight.”

“Un homme qui parle trois langues est trilingue. Un homme qui parle deux langues est bilingue. Un homme qui ne parle qu'une langue est anglais”