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

Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.

He has the manner of a giant with the look of a child, a lazy activeness, a mad wisdom, a solitude encompassing the world.

And history becomes legend and legend becomes history.

The runner stopped dead, lost his balance, froze in one of those violent attitudes in which the photographers petrify living reality.

There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them.

Poetry is a religion without hope. The poet exhausts himself in its service, knowing that, in the long run, a masterpiece is nothing but the performance of a trained dog on very shaky ground.