One sits down first; one thinks afterwards.

A picture is not a window...an abstract refers to no reality but its own.

Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.

History is a combination of reality and lies. The reality of History becomes a lie. The unreality of the fable becomes the truth.

One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers, completely cut off from our habits and friends.

Art is science in the flesh.

Statues to great men are made of the stones thrown at them in their lifetime.