The world of art is not a world of immortality but of metamorphosis.
Some pictures are in the gallery because they belong to humanity and others because they belong to the United States.
The terrible thing about death is that it transforms life into destiny.
The next century's task will be to rediscover its gods.
To love a painting is to feel that this presence is ... not an object but a voice.
One can fool life for a long time, but in the end it always makes us what we were intended to be.