1. “Every great masterpiece is a purification of the world.”
2. “War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously.”
3. “The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell.”
4. “Communism destroys democracy. Democracy can also destroy communism.”
5. “Man knows that the world is not made on a human scale; and he wishes that it were.”
6. “Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.”
7. “And when man faces destiny, destiny ends and man comes into his own.”
8. “I don’t argue with my enemies; I explain to their children.”
9. “A art book is a museum without walls.”
10. “What is Man? A miserable little pile of secrets.”
11. “Art is a revolt against fate. All art is a revolt against man’s fate.”
12. “To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.”
13. “Tragedy, in our times is politics.”
14. “The men of my race arrive on wingless, eyeless ships.”
15. “Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real.”
16. “The true painter strives to paint what can only e seen through his world.”
17. “In the realm of human destiny, the depth of man’ questionings is more important than his answers.”
18. “To understand what the outside of an aquarium looks like, it’s better not to be a fish.”
19. “He who has dreamed for long resembles his dream.”
20. “One cannot create a art that speaks to men when one has nothing to say.”
21. “Youth is a religion from which one always ends up being converted.”
22. “A break in the established order is never the work of chance. It is the outcome of a man’s resolve to turn life to account.”
23. “A political leader is necessarily a imposter since he believes in solving life’s problems without asking its question.”
24. “The next century’s task will be to rediscover its gods.”
25. “If you can’t make art, make your life a work of art.”
26. “An artist discovers his genius the day he dares not to please.”
27. “The terrible thing about death is that it transforms life into destiny.”
28. “There is no such thing as a grown up person .”
29. “One can fool life for a long time, but in the end it always makes us what we were intended to be.”
30. “Every creation is, at it root, the struggle between potential form and imitated form.”
