A break in the established order is never the work of chance. It is the outcome of a man's resolve to turn life to account.

The crucial discovery was made that, in order to become painting, the universe seen by the artist had to become a private one created by himself.

Nothing is harder than to get people to think about what they are going to do.

In a world in which everything is subject to the passing of time, art alone is both subject to time and yet victorious over it.

And when man faces destiny, destiny ends and man comes into his own.

Since 1789 history has had a new perspective, revolution being a successful revolt, and revolt a revolution that has failed.

Culture is the sum of all the forms of art, of love, and of thought, which, in the coarse or centuries, have enabled man to be less enslaved