Don't think that your truth could be found by someone else..

There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome..

When you have nothing to say, or to hide, there is no need to be prudent..

No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond..

Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor..

The less intelligent the white man is, the more stupid he thinks the black..

Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you..

To be sure, theory is useful. But without warmth of heart and without love it bruises the very ones it claims to save..

The artist who is after success lets himself be influenced by the public. Generally such an artist contributes nothing new, for the public acclaims o….

No encounter occured that day, and I was glad of it; I took out of my pocket a little Homer I had not opened since leaving Marseilles, reread three l….

The individual man tries to escape the race. And as soon as he ceases to represent the race, he represents man..

Nothing blocks happiness like happiness remembered..

In hell there is no other punishment than to begin over and over again the tasks left unfinished in your lifetime..

It is now, and in this world, that we must live..

What thwarts us and demands of us the greatest effort is also what can teach us most..

A work of art is an exaggeration..

Art that submits to orthodoxy, to even the soundest doctrines, but lacks imagination and deep self-expression is lost leaving only the craftsmanship..

The color of truth is gray..

Though a revolution may call itself "national," it always marks the victory of a single party..

Chastity more rarely follows fear, or a resolution, or a vow, than it is the mere effect of lack of appetite and, sometimes even, of distaste..

Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.