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

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

Man knows that the world is not made on a human scale; and he wishes that it were.

The twenty-first century will be spiritual or it will not be.

Even the West has known the architecture of empty space, whose object, for thousands of years, has been less to construct divine houses, than to create sacred places, to seize upon mystery and to immerse man in it-whether by raising the cyclopean pedestal that surrounds him with stars, or by hollowing out the sanctuary that wraps him in haunted night.

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

Some pictures are in the gallery because they belong to humanity and others because they belong to the United States.