The irony is that in our decades, the combination of rationalism, asceticism, and individualism (the so-called Protestant Ethic) has produced precise….
I love to perform live..
When you reach your sixties, you have to decide whether you're going to be a sot or an ascetic. In other words if you want to go on working after you….
Spin-offs were never really my thing..
Is not living at all not better than living badly?.
The saints' deep secret is this: do not seek freedom, and freedom will be given you..
They had both noticed that a life of dissipation sometimes gave to a face the look of gaunt suffering spirituality that a life of asceticism was supp….
We notice the person who is for ever bowing and fussily servile, and perhaps say, How humble he is! But the truly humble person escapes notice: the w….
The beauty of a cuckoo is in its notes, that of a woman in her unalloyed devotion to her husband, that of an ugly person in his scholarship, and that….
Do not seek to be loved at any price, because Love has no price..
I love a good non sequitur..
I've been on top longer and I am younger. I'm just better..
Genuine asceticism for finding one's own soul and for the good of humanity is worthy of reverence..
I'm not a flowerchild or anything like that... whatever it was..
I never did calligraphy... But handwriting is an entirely different kind of thing. It's part of the syndrome of modernism... It's part of that asceti….
The physical part has a lot to do with the mental part..
Where ever you are be all there.
You don't take a picture, you make a picture..
Certainly when you do a work for a public space, you lose control..
This is your here, this is your now, let it be magical!.
Anything you throw yourself into, you better get yourself out of..