To the lover the loved one always appears as solitary.

Literature tells very little to those who understand it.

No poem is intended for the reader, no picture for the beholder, no symphony for the listener.

Art teaches us to see into things. Folk art and kitsch allow us to see outward from within things.

The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than convictions.

Ownership is the most intimate relationship that one can have to objects. Not that they come alive in him; it is he who lives in them.

By close-ups of the things around us, by focusing on hidden details of familiar objects, by exploring commonplace milieus under the ingenious guidance of the camera, the film, on the one hand, extends our comprehension of the necessities which rule our lives; on the other hand, it manages to assure us of an immense and unexpected field of action.