It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.

What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.

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.

Speak the truth, do not yield to anger give, if thou art asked for little by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.