The true painter strives to paint what can only be seen through his world.

The basic problem is that our civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.

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.

There are not fifty ways of fighting, there's only one, and that's to win. Neither revolution nor war consists in doing what one pleases.

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

The truth of a man is first and foremost what he hides.