“I want to put strongly and completely all that is necessary, for things weakly said might as well not be said at all.”

“The most joyful thing I know is the peace, the silence that one enjoys in the woods or on the tilled lands.”

“If you could see how beautiful the forest is! I sometimes slip away there at days end after my work day and I always return overwhelmed. It has such a calm, such a terrible grandeur, to the point that I am surprised that I feel genuinely afraid. I don't know what the trees says amongst themselves, but they say something we don't speak the same language.”

“Simplifying to the extreme, I define postmodern as incredulity toward metanarratives.”

“I shall call modern that art which ... presents the fact that the unpresentable exists. To make visible that there is something which can be conceived and which can neither be seen nor made visible.”

“He was too tough to experience disappointments and resentments — negative affections. In this nihilist fin de siècle, he was affirmation. Right through to illness and death. Why did I speak of him in the past? He laughed, he is laughing, he is here. It's your sadness, idiot, he'd say.”

“It is said that the future narrows once we cease to believe it is eternal...”