Sometimes the truth is too simple for intellectuals.

When the rich [and politically powerful] make war, it's the poor [and politically weak] who die.

We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us.

One of the chief motives of artistic creation is certainly the need of feeling that we are essential in relationship to the world.

I distrust the incommunicable; it is the source of all violence

Freedom is existence, and in it existence precedes essence.

What the painter adds to the canvas are the days of his life. The adventure of living, hurtling toward death.