The Church is simply the path of history, and not the actual kingdom of God.

Utopias now appear much more realizable than one used to think. We are now faced with a different new worry: How to prevent their realization.

In every artistic activity a new world is created, the cosmos, a world enlightened and free.

Freedom is the power to create out of nothing, the power of the spirit to create out of itself.

Creativity is something which proceeds from within, out of immeasurable and inexplicable depths, not from without, not from the world's necessity. The very desire to make the creative act understandable, to find a basis for it, is failure to comprehend it. To comprehend the creative act means to recognize that it is inexplicable and without foundation.

The question of bread for myself is a material question; but the question of bread for my neighbour, for everybody, is a spiritual and a religious question.

Creativity is the supreme mystery of life, the mystery of the appearance of something new, hitherto unknown, derived from nothing, proceeding from nothing, born of nothing other.