“The gifts you have received are for each one of you a responsibility and a mission.”

“Artists who are conscious of all this know too that they must labour without allowing themselves to be driven by the search for empty glory or the craving for cheap popularity, and still less by the calculation of some possible profit for themselves. “

“I invite you to cherish beauty, and beauty will heal the many wounds that mark the hearts and souls of the men and women of our day.”

“The purpose of art is nothing less than the upliftment of the human spirit. “

“Those who perceive in themselves… the artistic vocation as poet, writer, sculptor, painter, musician, and actor feel at the same time an obligation not to waste this talent but to develop it, in order to put it to service of their neighbour and the humanity as a whole. “