It is emotion that drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

I would say act like a man of thought and think like a man of action.