"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."
"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion."
"I know of only one duty, and that is to love."
"Do not wait for the last judgment. It comes every day."
"The evil that is in the world almost always comes from ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding."
"Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others."