"The poem is lonely. It is lonely and en route. Its author stays with it. Does this very fact not place the poem already here, at its inception, in the encounter, in the mystery of encounter?" — Paul Celan, Romanian poet, born 1920
"When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical is madness. To surrender dreams — this may be madness. Too much sanity may be madness — and maddest of all: to see life as it is, and not as it should be!" — Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish playwright, born 1547
"A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience." — Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish playwright, born 1547
"Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be." — Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish playwright, born 1547
"Poetic knowledge is born in the great silence of scientific knowledge." — Aime Cesaire, French poet, born 1913
"It is no use painting the foot of the tree white, the strength of the bark cries out from beneath the paint." — Aime Cesaire, French poet, born 1913
"Light is a thing that cannot be reproduced, but must be represented by something else – by color." — Paul Cezanne, French painter, born 1839
"For me a stained glass window is a transparent partition between my heart and the heart of the world." — Marc Chagall, Belarussian-French artist, born 1887
"I've always painted pictures in which human love floods my colors." — Marc Chagall, Belarussian-French artist, born 1887
"In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love." — Marc Chagall, Belarussian-French artist, born 1887
"Work isn't to make money; you work to justify life." — Marc Chagall, Belarussian-French artist, born 1887