The truth of a man is first and foremost 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.

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.

All art is a revolt against man's fate.

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

One can fool life for a long time, but in the end it always makes us what we were intended to be.

Even the West has known the architecture of empty space, whose object, for thousands of years, has been less to construct divine houses, than to create sacred places, to seize upon mystery and to immerse man in it-whether by raising the cyclopean pedestal that surrounds him with stars, or by hollowing out the sanctuary that wraps him in haunted night.