The ultimate justification of the work of art is to help the spectator to become a work of art himself.

There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man's reason has never learnt to separate them.

The ultimate justification of the work of art is to help the spectator to become a work of art himself.

I walk in the garden, I look at the flowers and shrubs and trees and discover in them an exquisiteness of contour, a vitality of edge, or a vigour of spring, as well as an infinite variety of colour that no artefact I have seen in the last sixty years can rival...each day, as I look, I wonder where my eyes were yesterday.

Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

The average European does not seem to feel free until he succeeds in enslaving and oppressing others.

German is of stone, limestone, pudding stone, marble, granite even, and so to a considerable degree is English, whereas French is bronze and gives out a metallic resonance with tones that neither German nor English tolerate.