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.

A break in the established order is never the work of chance. It is the outcome of a man's resolve to turn life to account.

War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously.

The true painter strives to paint what can only be seen through his world.

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

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

Communism destroys democracy. Democracy can also destroy Communism.