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.

I don't argue with my enemies; I explain to their children.

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.

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

Youth is a religion from which one always ends up being converted.

The terrible thing about death is that it transforms life into destiny.

Be careful -- with quotations, you can damn anything.