Athirst for personal salvation, the West forgets that many religions had but a vague notion of the life beyond the grave; true, all great religions s….

Here, reality is not subordinated to painting, indeed painting seems the handmaid of reality, though we feel it tending towards a procedure which, wh….

Since 1789 history has had a new perspective, revolution being a successful revolt, and revolt a revolution that has failed..

If we cannot shape our destiny there as no such thing as witchcraft..

The twenty-first century will be spiritual or it will not be..

Seldom is a Gothic head more beautiful than when broken..

In the realm of human destiny, the depth of man's questionings is more important than his answers..

In art, we are the first heirs of all the earth. . . . Accidents impair and Time transforms, but it is we who choose..

If you can't make art, make your life a work of art..

The world of art is not a world of immortality but of metamorphosis..

There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman..

Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real..

Could we bring ourselves to feel what the first spectators of an Egyptian statue, or a Romanesque crucifixion, felt, we would make haste to remove th….

Christ...an anarchist who succeeded. That's all..

You can only make art that talks to the masses when you have nothing to say to them..

Some pictures are in the gallery because they belong to humanity and others because they belong to the United States..

He who has dreamed for long resembles his dream..

No one can endure his own solitude..

Chanel, General De Gaulle and Picasso are the three most important figures of our time..

The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell..

The great mystery is not that we should have been thrown down here at random between the profusion of matter and that of the stars; it is that from o….