Basically the French are all peasants.

There is only one way to see things, until someone shows us how to look at them with different eyes

Races and religions may have changed, but the marketplace, the living quarters, pilgrimage sites, places of worship, have remained the same. Venus is replaced by the Virgin, but the same life goes on.

Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.

What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero.

When you start with a portrait and try to find pure form by abstracting more and more, you must end up with an egg.

So there's only one tactic for the state: kill the seers.