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.

The next century's task will be to rediscover its gods.

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 you can't make art, make your life a work of art.

The world of art is not a world of immortality but of metamorphosis.

An art book is a museum without walls.

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