“For the eyes are the mirror of the soul and ought to remain unscathed if at all possible. Otherwise people will suppose the soul is done for.”
“For the first thing a proprietor learns, and painfully at that, is: Trust is fine, but control is better.”
Elfriede Jelinek
“Sometimes, of course, art creates the suffering in the first place.”
Elfriede Jelinek
“Every child instinctively heads toward dirt and filth unless you pull it back.”
Elfriede Jelinek
“The artist is lonesome and admits his solitude.”
Elfriede Jelinek
“Of course, art turns many people away for there has to be a limit. The limits between the gifted and the ungifted.”
Elfriede Jelinek