The devil's finest trick is to persuade you that he does not exist.

The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to its essential quality of being the present.

An artist is only an artist on condition that he neglects no aspect of his dual nature. This dualism is the power of being oneself and someone else at one and the same time.

This industry [photography], by invading the territories of art, has become art's most mortal enemy.

Blessed art Thou, Lord, who giveth suffering As a divine remedy for our impurities.

It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.

Like those great sphinxes lounging through eternity in noble attitudes upon the desert sand, they gaze incuriously at nothing, calm and wise.