Communism destroys democracy. Democracy can also destroy Communism.

In a world in which everything is subject to the passing of time, art alone is both subject to time and yet victorious over it.

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

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

There's no such thing as a grown up person.

If you can't make art, make your life a work of art.

To understand what the outside of an aquarium looks like, it's better not to be a fish.