I wonder whether art has a higher function than to make me feel, appreciate, and enjoy natural objects for their art value?

You can parody and make fun of almost anything, but that does not turn the universe into a caricature.

Government lasts as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed.

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

I never felt that there was anything enviable in youth. I cannot recall that any of us, as youths, admired our condition to excess or had a desire to prolong it.

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

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