I Do Not Believe In My Death.

It Is Good Taste, And Good Taste Alone, That Possesses The Power To Sterilize And Is Always The First Handicap To Any Creative Functioning.

Young People Need Plenty Of Difficulties To Achieve Something.... If You Receive A Little Money For This, A Little Money For That, Everything Becomes Mediocre, And Collapses Ignominiously.

The Secret Of My Influence Has Always Been That It Remained Secret.

God Invented Man, And Man Invented The Metric System.

Let The Labyrinth Of Wrinkles Be Furrowed In My Brow With The Red-hot Iron Of My Own Life, Let My Hair Whiten And My Step Become Vacillating, On Condition That I Can Save The Intelligence Of My Soul - Let My Unformed Childhood Soul, As It Ages, Assume The Rational And Esthetic Forms Of An Architecture, Let Me Learn Just Everything That Others Cannot Teach Me, What Only Life Would Be Capable Of Marking Deeply In My Skin!