Art has no other object than to set aside the symbols of practical utility, the generalities that are conventionally and socially accepted, everything in fact which masks reality from us, in order to set us face to face with reality itself.

... divine love is not something belonging to God: it is God Himself.

I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that does not change every moment

Intuition is a method of feeling one's way intellectually into the inner heart of a thing to locate what is unique and inexpressible in it.

In just the same way the thousands of successive positions of a runner are contracted into one sole symbolic attitude, which our eye perceives, which art reproduces, and which becomes for everyone the image of a man who runs.

In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour.

Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.