If reality impacted directly on our senses and our consciousness, if we could have direct communication between the material world and ourselves, art would be unnecessary.

In short, intelligence, considered in what seems to be its original feature, is the faculty of manufacturing artificial objects, especially tools to make tools, and of indefinitely varying the manufacture.

An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis. We call intuition here the sympathy by which one is transported into the interior of an object in order to coincide with what there is unique andconsequently inexpressible in it. Analysis, on the contrary, is the operation which reduces the object to elements already known.

The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind.

Sex-appeal is the keynote of our whole civilization.

I believe I experience creativity at every moment of my life.

It is emotion that drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles.