With all its technical sophistication, the photographic camera remains a coarse device compared to the human hand and brain.

There is today a frightful disappearance of living species, be they plants or animals. And it's clear that the density of human beings has become so great, if I can say so, that they have begun to poison themselves. And the world in which I am finishing my existence is no longer a world that I like.

Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing.

All the essentials of humanity's artistic treasures can be found in New York.

The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions.

Civilization has ceased to be that delicate flower which was preserved and painstakingly cultivated in one or two sheltered areas of a soil rich in wild species ... Mankind has opted for monoculture; it is in the process of creating a mass civilization, as beetroot is grown in the mass. Henceforth, man's daily bill of fare will consist only of this one item.

Understanding arises from reducing one type of reality into another.