It is normal to give away a little of one's life in order not to lose it all.
In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.
After all, every murderer when he kills runs the risk of the most dreadful of deaths, whereas those who kill him risk nothing except promotion.
In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.
Integrity has no need of rules.
At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.
It is not your paintings I like, it is your painting.
A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.
A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.
Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.
All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door.
All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.
An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.