If you keep on excusing, you eventually give your blessing to the slave camp, to cowardly force, to organized executioners, to the cynicism of great political monsters; you finally hand over your brothers.

Believe me, religions are on the wrong track the moment they moralize and fulminate commandments. God is not needed to create guilt or to punish. Our fellow men suffice, aided by ourselves.

An achievement is a bondage. It obliges one to a higher achievement.

A man is more a man through the things he keeps to himself than through those he says.

These are facts the heart can feel; yet they call for careful study before they become clear to the intellect.

In order to be created, a work of art must first make use of the dark forces of the soul

The only really committed artist is he who, without refusing to take part in the combat, at least refuses to join the regular armies and remains a freelance.