There are not fifty ways of fighting, there is only one: to be the conqueror..

The terrible thing about death is that it transforms life into destiny..

The next century's task will be to rediscover its gods..

The artist is not the transcriber of the world, he is its rival..

The true painter strives to paint what can only be seen through his world..

Surely that little pseudo-gothic church on Broadway, hidden amongst the skyscrapers, is symbolic of the age! On the whole face of the globe the civil….

The most important thing in life is to see to it that you are never beaten..

A large share of our art heritage is now derived from peoples whose idea of art was quite other than ours, and even from peoples to whom the very ide….

One cannot create an art that speaks to men when one has nothing to say..

There are not fifty ways of fighting, there's only one, and that's to win. Neither revolution nor war consists in doing what one pleases..

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

Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides..

One can fool life for a long time, but in the end it always makes us what we were intended to be..

The basic problem is that our civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man..

As for the outside world, the artist is confronted by what he sees; but what he sees is primarily what he looks at..

Youth is a religion from which one always ends up being converted..

To love a painting is to feel that this presence is ... not an object but a voice..

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….

The great Christian art did not die because all possible forms had been used up; it died because faith was being transformed into piety. Now, the sam….

Always, however brutal an age may actually have been, its style transmits its music only..

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