The most important thing in life is to see to it that you are never beaten.
Every great masterpiece is a purification of the world.
There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman.
Be careful -- with quotations, you can damn anything.
In art, we are the first heirs of all the earth. . . . Accidents impair and Time transforms, but it is we who choose.
To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.