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

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.

And when man faces destiny, destiny ends and man comes into his own.

The terrible thing about death is that it transforms life into destiny.

I don't argue with my enemies; I explain to their children.

Man knows that the world is not made on a human scale; and he wishes that it were.