Nothing is harder than to get people to think about what they are going to do.
The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.
Genius is not perfected, it is deepened. It does not so much interpret the world as fertilize itself with it.
All art is a revolt against man's fate.
No one can endure his own solitude.
You can only make art that talks to the masses when you have nothing to say to them.
If man is not ready to risk his life, where is his dignity?
And when man faces destiny, destiny ends and man comes into his own.
To love a painting is to feel that this presence is ... not an object but a voice.
The truth of a man is first and foremost what he hides.
Christ...an anarchist who succeeded. That's all.
In so far as he is a creator, the artist does not belong to a social group already moulded by a culture, but to a culture which he is by way of building up.
One cannot create an art that speaks to men when one has nothing to say.
The only domain where the divine is visible is that of art, whatever name we choose to call it.
The mind supplies the idea of a nation, but what gives this idea its sentimental force is a community of dreams.
Communism destroys democracy. Democracy can also destroy Communism.
There are not fifty ways of fighting, there is only one: to be the conqueror.
Youth is a religion from which one always ends up being converted.
War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously.
An art book is a museum without walls.
In a world in which everything is subject to the passing of time, art alone is both subject to time and yet victorious over it.
The artist is not the transcriber of the world, he is its rival.
Every great masterpiece is a purification of the world.
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 same conquest of the outside world that brought in our modern individualism, so different from that of the Renaissance, is by way of relativizing the individual. It is plain to see that man's faculty of transformation, which began by a remaking of the natural world, has ended by calling man himself into question.
Between eigtheen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.
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