The task of the artist is to sense more keenly than others the harmony of the world, the beauty and the outrage of what man has done to it, and poignantly to let people know.

I have always had that inner drive, since my birth. And I have always devoted myself gladly to work - to work and to the struggle.

... that maxim of Descartes: "Question everything!" Question everything!

Your friend will argue with you.

It would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been followed.

There also exists another alliance - at first glance a strange one, a surprising one - but if you think about it, in fact, one which is well grounded and easy to understand. This is the alliance between our Communist leaders and your capitalists. This alliance is not new. ... We observe continuous and steady support by the businessmen of the West of the Soviet Communist leaders.

Of course, my views developed in the course of time. But I have always believed in what I did and never acted against my conscience.