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

Every creation is, at its root, the struggle between potential form and imitated form.

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.

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

The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.

Nothing is harder than to get people to think about what they are going to do.

The only domain where the divine is visible is that of art, whatever name we choose to call it.