We prove what we want to prove, and the real difficulty is to know what we want to prove.

We prove what we want to prove, and the real difficulty is to know what we want to prove.

When we speak, in gestures or signs, we fashion a real object in the world; the gesture is seen, the words and the song are heard. The arts are simply a kind of writing, which, in one way or another, fixes words or gestures, and gives body to the invisible.

There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them.

One must be truthful with oneself about one's own motives, especially if one is to survive in the world. It takes rigor, and it takes courage.

Man himself is an enigma in motion; his questions never stay asked; whereas the mold, the footprint, and by natural extension, the statue itself, like the vaults, the arches, the temples with which man records his own passing, remain immobile and fix a moment of man's life, upon which one might endlessly meditate.

There is a future that makes itself and a future we make. The real future is composed of both.