"Twice in life the portal opens up between the spiritual and material worlds. At death, when the earth opens up to receive its own. And at birth, when the womb opens up to deliver a new life." — The Torah
"After conducting a concert in a small town, I once received the following note from a farmer who had attended the performance: Dear Sir, I wish to inform you that the man who played the long thing you pull in and out only did so during the brief periods you were looking at him." — Arturo Toscanini, Italian conductor, born 1867
"After I die, I shall return to earth as a gatekeeper of a bordello and I won't let any of you enter." — Arturo Toscanini, Italian conductor, born 1867
"I kissed my first girl and smoked my first cigarette on the same day. I haven't had time for tobacco since." — Arturo Toscanini, Italian conductor, born 1867
"Only the human figure exists; landscape is, and should be, no more than an accessory; the painter exclusively of landscape is nothing but a bore." — Toulouse-Lautrec, French painter, born 1864
"I had placed my stick on the table, as I do every evening. It had been specially made to suit my height, to enable me to walk without too much difficulty. As I was standing up, a customer called to me: 'Monsieur, don't forget your pencil.' It was very unkind, but most funny." — Toulouse-Lautrec, French painter, born 1864
"It's the singer not the song that makes the music move along." — Pete Townshend, English rock musician, born 1945
"Nothing else in nature behaves so consistently and rigidly as a human being in pursuit of hell." — Pete Townshend, English rock musician, born 1945
"Sometimes my life opened its eyes in the dark. A feeling as if crowds drew through the streets in blindness and anxiety on the way towards a miracle, while I invisibly remain standing." — Tomas Transtromer, Swedish poet, born 1931
"Every abstract picture of the world is as impossible as a blueprint of a storm. Don't be ashamed because you're human: be proud! Inside you, vaults behind vaults open endlessly. You will never be finished, and that's as it should be." — Tomas Transtromer, Swedish poet, born 1931
"I am still the place where creation does some work on itself." — Tomas Transtromer, Swedish poet, born 1931