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No one can endure his own solitude.
An art book is a museum without walls.
All art is a revolt against man's fate.
There's no such thing as a grown up person.
He who has dreamed for long resembles his dream.
What is Man? A miserable little pile of secrets.
Christ...an anarchist who succeeded. That's all.
If you can't make art, make your life a work of art.
War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously.
Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.
Be careful -- with quotations, you can damn anything.
To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.
The truth of a man is first and foremost what he hides.
The next century's task will be to rediscover its gods.
Every great masterpiece is a purification of the world.
Seldom is a Gothic head more beautiful than when broken.
I don't argue with my enemies; I explain to their children.
If man is not ready to risk his life, where is his dignity?
The twenty-first century will be spiritual or it will not be.
An artist discovers his genius the day he dares not to please.
The truth about a man lies first and foremost in what he hides.
The artist is not the transcriber of the world, he is its rival.
Youth is a religion from which one always ends up being converted.
Communism destroys democracy. Democracy can also destroy Communism.
The world of art is not a world of immortality but of metamorphosis.
And when man faces destiny, destiny ends and man comes into his own.
If we cannot shape our destiny there as no such thing as witchcraft.
Art is a revolt against fate. All art is a revolt against man's fate.
The terrible thing about death is that it transforms life into destiny.
One cannot create an art that speaks to men when one has nothing to say.
The true painter strives to paint what can only be seen through his world.
The most important thing in life is to see to it that you are never beaten.
The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell.
There are not fifty ways of fighting, there is only one: to be the conqueror.
Nothing is harder than to get people to think about what they are going to do.
To love a painting is to feel that this presence is ... not an object but a voice.
Man knows that the world is not made on a human scale; and he wishes that it were.
You can only make art that talks to the masses when you have nothing to say to them.
Every creation is, at its root, the struggle between potential form and imitated form.
To understand what the outside of an aquarium looks like, it's better not to be a fish.
Chanel, General De Gaulle and Picasso are the three most important figures of our time.
Always, however brutal an age may actually have been, its style transmits its music only.
The only domain where the divine is visible is that of art, whatever name we choose to call it.
There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman.
One can fool life for a long time, but in the end it always makes us what we were intended to be.
Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real.
In the realm of human destiny, the depth of man's questionings is more important than his answers.
Genius is not perfected, it is deepened. It does not so much interpret the world as fertilize itself with it.
The mind supplies the idea of a nation, but what gives this idea its sentimental force is a community of dreams.
As for the outside world, the artist is confronted by what he sees; but what he sees is primarily what he looks at.