Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real.

The next century's task will be to rediscover its gods.

As for the outside world, the artist is confronted by what he sees; but what he sees is primarily what he looks at.

Communism destroys democracy. Democracy can also destroy Communism.

The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell.

Always, however brutal an age may actually have been, its style transmits its music only.

In art, we are the first heirs of all the earth. . . . Accidents impair and Time transforms, but it is we who choose.