“Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence.”
“Art is affirmation.”
“Poetry is the deification of reality.”
“The essential element in the black art of obscurantism is not that it wants to darken individual understanding, but that it wants to blacken our picture of the world, and darken our idea of existence.”
“The art of reading and studying consists in remembering the essentials and forgetting what is not essential.”
“Art is the suitcase of history, carrying the essentials. Art is the life buoy of history. Art is seed, art is memory, art is vaccine.”