“I always thought that a world without monuments is happier than a world where monuments are needed.”
“Regardless of my own beliefs and my own doubts, which are unimportant in this connection, it is my opinion that art lost its basic creative drive the moment it was separated from worship. It severed an umbilical cord and now lives its own sterile life, generating and degenerating itself. In former days the artist remained unknown and his work was to the glory of God”
“Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack, a crack in everything
That’s how the light gets in”
“Human beings make life so interesting. Do you know, that in a universe so full of wonders, they have managed to invent boredom” (Death)