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.

Every young man's heart is a graveyard in which are inscribed the names of a thousand dead artists but whose only actual denizens are a few mighty, often antagonistic, ghosts.

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

In the course of history, all empires have been created with premeditation, by an effort often sustained over several generations. Every power has been Roman to a degree. The United States is the first nation to become the most powerful in the world without having sought to be so. Its exceptional energy and organization have never been oriented toward conquest.

All art is a revolt against man's fate.

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

The thrill of creation which we experience which we experience when we see a masterpiece is not unlike the feeling of the artist who created it; such a work is a fragment of the world which he has annexed and which belongs to him alone.