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.

The only domain where the divine is visible is that of art, whatever name we choose to call it.

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.

Genius is not perfected, it is deepened. It does not so much interpret the world as fertilize itself with it.

Christ...an anarchist who succeeded. That's all.

The most important thing in life is to see to it that you are never beaten.

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