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

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 is only one: to be the conqueror.

In a world in which everything is subject to the passing of time, art alone is both subject to time and yet victorious over it.

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.

In art, we are the first heirs of all the earth. . . . Accidents impair and Time transforms, but it is we who choose.

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