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.

Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks.

The movement of the stream is distinct from the river bed, although it must adopt its winding course.

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.

It is of man's essence to create materially and morally, to fabricate things and to fabricate himself. Homo faber is the definition I propose ... Homo faber, Homo sapiens, I pay my respects to both, for they tend to merge.

The only cure for vanity is laughter. And the only fault that's laughable is vanity.

The emotion felt by a man in the presence of nature certainly counts for something in the origin of religions.