Art is a revolt against fate.
Communism destroys democracy. Democracy can also destroy Communism.
All art is a revolt against man's fate.
Always, however brutal an age may actually have been, its style transmits its music only.
An art book is a museum without walls.
Man knows that the world is not made on a human scale; and he wishes that it were.
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.
And when man faces destiny, destiny ends and man comes into his own.
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.
Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.
Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real.
The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell.
The crucial discovery was made that, in order to become painting, the universe seen by the artist had to become a private one created by himself.
Then I despair... I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love has always won. There have been murderers and tyrants, and for a time they can seem invincible. But in the end they always fall. Think of it always.