The critic should describe, and not prescribe.

In the history of humanity there are no civilizations or cultures which fail to manifest, in one or a thousand ways, this need for an absolute that is called heaven, freedom, a miracle, a lost paradise to be regained, peace, the going beyond History... There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison; there is no philosophy or ideology that does not think that we live in alienation.... Humanity has always had a nostalgia for the freedom that is only beauty, that is only real; life, plenitude, light.

The brightest light, the light of Italy, the purest sky of Scandinavia in the month of June is only a half-light when one compares it to the light of childhood. Even the nights were blue.

Language should almost break up or explode in its fruitless effort to contain so many meanings.

People always try to find base motives behind every good action. We are afraid of pure goodness and of pure evil.

If one does not understand the usefulness of the useless and the uselessness of the useful, one cannot understand art.

Banality is a symptom of non-communication. Men hide behind their cliches.