"Always, however brutal an age may actually have been, its style transmits its music only." — Andre Malraux

The crucial discovery was made that, in order to become painting, the universe seen by the artist had to become a private one created by himself.

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.

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

Genius is not perfected, it is deepened. It does not so much interpret the world as fertilize itself with it.