We are free when our actions emanate from our total personality, when they express it, when they resemble it in the indefinable way a work of art sometimes does the artist.

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

Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division.

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

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

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.

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