To love a painting is to feel that this presence is ... not an object but a voice.
Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.
There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman.
In art, we are the first heirs of all the earth. . . . Accidents impair and Time transforms, but it is we who choose.
There's no such thing as a grown up person.
Every great masterpiece is a purification of the world.