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.

Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.

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.

To perceive means to immobilize. To say this is to say that we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself.

And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them.

There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.

The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.