Science is feasible when the variables are few and can be enumerated; when their combinations are distinct and clear. We are tending toward the condition of science and aspiring to do it. The artist works out his own formulas; the interest of science lies in the art of making science.

We must always apologize for talking painting.

An intelligent woman is a woman with whom one can be as stupid as one wants.

History justifies whatever we want it to. It teaches absolutely nothing, for it contains everything and gives examples of everything.

We need to wake up from a thought that lasts too long.

Love is acting stupid together.

The mere notion of photography, when we introduce it into our meditation on the genesis of historical knowledge and its true value, suggests the simple question: Could such and such a fact, as it is narrated here, have been photographed?