The metaphor is probably the most fertile power possessed by man

A revolution only lasts fifteen years, a period which coincides with the effectiveness of a generation.

The trend towards pure art betrays not arrogance, as is often thought, but modesty. Art that has rid itself of human pathos is a thing without consequence.

The truth is that no horizon is especially interesting by itself, by virtue of its peculiar content, and that any horizon, wide or narrow, brilliant or dull, varied or monotonous, may possess an interest of its own which merely requires a vital adjustment to be discovered.

By speaking, by thinking, we undertake to clarify things, and that forces us to exacerbate them, dislocate them, schematize them. Every concept is in itself an exaggeration.

Thought is not a gift to man but a laborious, precarious and volatile acquisition.

Thinking is the desire to gain reality by means of ideas.