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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Spirit borrows from matter the perceptions on which it feeds and restores them to matter in the form of movements which it has stamped with its own freedom.