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

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 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.

Be careful -- with quotations, you can damn anything.

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

Some pictures are in the gallery because they belong to humanity and others because they belong to the United States.

Genius is not perfected, it is deepened. It does not so much interpret the world as fertilize itself with it.