[Describing his house:] It is a library with living rooms attached.

No artifact is a work of art if it does not help to humanize us. Without art...our world would have remained a jungle.

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

Art is mind and heart and touch as much and more than it is mere instrument, technique - without which however it cannot exist at all.

Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one's training.

It was a morning in early summer. A silver haze shimmered and trembled over the lime trees. The air was laden with their fragrance. The temperature was like a caress. I remember - I need not recall - that I climbed up a tree stump and felt suddenly immersed in Itness. I did not call it by that name. I had no need for words. It and I were one.

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