The look of success, when it is worn a certain way, would infuriate a jackass.

In Italian museums are sometimes found little painted screens that the priest used to hold in front of the face of condemned men to hide the scaffold from them.

It takes time to live. Like any work of art, life needs to be thought about.

It was previously a question of finding out whether or not life had to have a meaning to be lived. It now becomes clear on the contrary that it will be lived all the better if it has no meaning

We must stitch up what has been torn apart, render justice imaginable in the world which is so obviously unjust, make happiness meaningful for nations poisoned by the misery of this century. Naturally, it is a superhuman task. But tasks are called superhuman when men take a long time to complete them, that is all.

There is not a single true work of art that has not in the end added to the inner freedom insight and life of each person who has known and loved it.

If we understood the enigmas of life there would be no need for art.