To understand what the outside of an aquarium looks like, it's better not to be a fish.

There are not fifty ways of fighting, there's only one, and that's to win. Neither revolution nor war consists in doing what one pleases.

Nothing is harder than to get people to think about what they are going to do.

War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously.

Some pictures are in the gallery because they belong to humanity and others because they belong to the United States.

Genius is not perfected, it is deepened. It does not so much interpret the world as fertilize itself with it.

As for the outside world, the artist is confronted by what he sees; but what he sees is primarily what he looks at.