The Next Century's Task Will Be To

One Cannot Create An Art That Speaks To Men When One Has Nothing To Say.

The Twenty-first Century Will Be Spiritual Or It Will Not Be.

A Political Leader Is Necessarily An Imposter Since He Believes In Solving Life's Problems Without Asking Its Question.

Could We Bring Ourselves To Feel What The First Spectators Of An Egyptian Statue, Or A Romanesque Crucifixion, Felt, We Would Make Haste To Remove Them From The Louvre. True, We Are Trying More And More To Gauge The Feelings Of Those First Spectators, But Without Forgetting Our Own, And We Can Be Contented All The More Easily With The Mere Knowledge Of The Former, Without Experiencing Them, Because All We Wish To Do Is Put This Knowledge To The Work Of Art.

The Basic Problem Is That Our Civilization, Which Is A Civilization Of Machines, Can Teach Man Everything Except How To Be A Man.