The great quality of true art is that it rediscovers, grasps and reveals to us that reality far from where we live, from which we get farther and farther away as the conventional knowledge we substitute for it becomes thicker and more impermeable.

The great quality of true art is that it rediscovers, grasps and reveals to us that reality far from where we live, from which we get farther and farther away as the conventional knowledge we substitute for it becomes thicker and more impermeable.

Wars are fought for the benefit of oligarchs, triumphs bought with the blood of peons.

You can't learn the truth about a man's intentions by asking him.

It is the tragedy of other people that they are to us merely showcases for the very perishable collections of our own mind.

Only imagination and belief can differentiate from the rest certain objects, certain people, and can create an atmosphere.

Our memory is like a shop in the window of which is exposed now one, now another photograph of the same person. And as a rule the most recent exhibit remains for some time the only one to be seen.