Though man's feeling for the other-worldly often has recourse to solitude, solitude does not foster its development; rather, it is nourished by commu….

Genius is not perfected, it is deepened. It does not so much interpret the world as fertilize itself with it..

Be careful -- with quotations, you can damn anything..

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

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

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

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..

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

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….

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

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

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

No one can endure his own solitude..

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

He who has dreamed for long resembles his dream..

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

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

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….

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

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