There are not fifty ways of fighting, there is only one, and that is to win. Neither revolution nor war consists in doing what one pleases. - André Malraux

One cannot create an art that speaks to me when one has nothing to say.

If modern painters feel qualms about applying the term "masterpiece" to describe a work of capital importance, this is because it has come to convey a notion of perfection: a notion that leads to much confusion when applied to artists other than those who made perfection their ideal.

Surely that little pseudo-gothic church on Broadway, hidden amongst the skyscrapers, is symbolic of the age! On the whole face of the globe the civilization that has conquered it has failed to build a temple or a tomb.