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.
You can only make art that talks to the masses when you have nothing to say to them.
All art is a revolt against man's fate.
The truth of a man is first and foremost what he hides.
Genius is not perfected, it is deepened. It does not so much interpret the world as fertilize itself with it.
And when man faces destiny, destiny ends and man comes into his own.
No one can endure his own solitude.
The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell.
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.
To love a painting is to feel that this presence is ... not an object but a voice.
One cannot create an art that speaks to men when one has nothing to say.
Christ...an anarchist who succeeded. That's all.
Be careful -- with quotations, you can damn anything.
There are not fifty ways of fighting, there is only one: to be the conqueror.
The only domain where the divine is visible is that of art, whatever name we choose to call it.
The artist is not the transcriber of the world, he is its rival.
Communism destroys democracy. Democracy can also destroy Communism.
Youth is a religion from which one always ends up being converted.
The mind supplies the idea of a nation, but what gives this idea its sentimental force is a community of dreams.
Between eigtheen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.
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.
Though man's feeling for the other-worldly often has recourse to solitude, solitude does not foster its development; rather, it is nourished by communion, to which the church is more propitious than the cemetery.
In the course of history, all empires have been created with premeditation, by an effort often sustained over several generations. Every power has been Roman to a degree. The United States is the first nation to become the most powerful in the world without having sought to be so. Its exceptional energy and organization have never been oriented toward conquest.
Every creation is, at its root, the struggle between potential form and imitated form.
Every great masterpiece is a purification of the world.
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