For each letter received from a creditor, write fifty lines on an extraterrestrial subject and you will be saved.

In philosophical inquiry, the human spirit, imitating the movement of the stars, must follow a curve which brings it back to its point of departure. To conclude is to close a circle.

No task is a long one but the task on which one dare not start. It becomes a nightmare.

Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.

This life is a hospital where every patient is possessed with the desire to change beds; one man would like to suffer in front of the stove, and another believes that he would recover his health beside the window.

My concern today is with the painting of manners of the present. The past is interesting not only by reason of the beauty which could be distilled from it by those artists for whom it was the present, but also precisely because it is the past, for its historical value. It is the same with the present. The pleasure which we derive from the representation of the present is due not only to the beauty with which it can be invested, but also to its essential quality of being present

God is the only being who, in order to reign, doesn't even need to exist.