If man is not ready to risk his life, where is his dignity?

A political leader is necessarily an imposter since he believes in solving life's problems without asking its question.

Every great masterpiece is a purification of the world.

The world of art is not a world of immortality but of metamorphosis.

The great mystery is not that we should have been thrown down here at random between the profusion of matter and that of the stars; it is that from our very prison we should draw, from our own selves, images powerful enough to deny our own nothingness.

The truth about a man lies first and foremost in what he hides.

The crucial discovery was made that, in order to become painting, the universe seen by the artist had to become a private one created by himself.