All still lifes are actually paintings of the world on the sixth day of creation, when God and the world were alone together, without man!

Ideology is: intellectual ordering of the feelings; an objective connection among them that makes the subjective connection easier.

Anything that endures over time sacrifices its ability to make an impression.

Each person is a graveyard of his thoughts. They are most beautiful for us in the moment of their birth; later we can often sense a deep pain that they leave us indifferent where earlier they enchanted us.

... nothing is more human than substituting the quantity of words and actions for their character. But using imprecise words is very similar to using lots of words, for the more imprecise a word is, the greater the area it covers.

A man can't be angry at his own time without suffering some damage.

One does what one is; one becomes what one does.