Art is, nowadays, our new religion and museums are our cathedrals.

The past is what provides us with the building blocks. Our job today is to create new buildings out of them.

Each person is an enigma. You're a puzzle not only to yourself but also to everyone else, and the great mystery of our time is how we penetrate this puzzle.

Two individuals, conversing honestly, can be inspired by the feeling that they are engaged in a joint enterprise, aiming at inventing an art which has not been tried before.

Never before have humans been so ambitious, have they thought that they could be much more than their parents were.

The Renaissance… was based on a new idea of the importance of the individual. But this was a fragile foundation, because individuals depended on constant applause and admiration to sustain them. There is a shortage of applause in the world, and there is not enough respect to go around.

We should strive to be employed in such a way that we don't realize that what we're doing is work.