The most dangerous aspect of present-day life is the dissolution of the feeling of individual responsibility. Mass solitude has done away with any difference between the internal and the external, between the intellectual and the physical.

Mass communication, radio, and especially television, have attempted, not without success, to annihilate every possibility of solitude and reflection.

In reality art is always for everyone and for no one.

I have been judged to be a pessimist but what abyss of ignorance and low egoism is not hidden in one who thinks that Man is the god of himself and that his future can only be triumphant?

Evidently the arts, all the visual arts, are becoming more democratic in the worst sense of the word.

It has often been observed that the repercussion of poetic language on prose language can be considered a decisive cut of a whip.

The most dangerous aspect of present-day life is the dissolution of the feeling of individual responsibility. Mass solitude has done away with any difference between the internal and the external, between the intellectual and the physical.