One must require from each one the duty which each one can perform. Accepted authority rests first of all on reason.

When I opened my eyes I saw nothing but the pool of nocturnal sky, for I was lying on my back with out-stretched arms, face to face with that hatchery of stars. Only half awake, still unaware that those depths were sky, having no roof between those depths and me, no branches to screen them, no root to cling to, I was seized with vertigo and felt myself as if flung forth and plunging downward like a diver.

Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness.

It is the savor of bread broken with comrades that makes us accept the values of war.

My drawing was not a picture of a hat. It was a picture of a boa constrictor digesting an elephant.

For there is but one problem - the problem of human relations. We forget that there is no hope or joy except in human relations.

You know... when you are sad you love the sunsets.