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

To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.

What is Man? A miserable little pile of secrets.

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

An artist discovers his genius the day he dares not to please.

Every young man's heart is a graveyard in which are inscribed the names of a thousand dead artists but whose only actual denizens are a few mighty, often antagonistic, ghosts.

One cannot create an art that speaks to men when one has nothing to say.