There is scarcely any passion without struggle.

Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable.

Man cannot do without beauty, and this is what our era pretends to want to disregard.

Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.

A man devoid of hope and conscious of being so has ceased to belong to the future.

What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying.

Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.

There is no longer a single idea explaining everything, but an infinite number of essences giving a meaning to an infinite number of objects. The world comes to a stop, but also lights up.

What I believe to be true I must therefore preserve. What seems to me so obvious, even against me, I must support.

Thinking is learning all over again how to see, directing one's consciousness, making of every image a privileged place.

Creating is living doubly. The groping, anxious quest of a Proust, his meticulous collecting of flowers, of wallpapers, and of anxieties, signifies nothing else.

Never do what the devil provokes you to do

Everyone who's ever taken a shower has an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off and does something about it who makes a difference.

Whatever men attempt, they seem driven to overdo. When hopes are soaring, I always repeat to myself that two and two still make four.

Discipline is knowing what to do. Knowing when to do it. Doing it to the best of your abilities. Doing it that way every single time.

It’s weird to think the place where we’re standing will only be a point in the sky.

We become what we love and who we love shapes what we become.

We go to church buildings that still have a mortgage. Which means the bank owns God's house. Which means that we go and make love to God in a house that Satan owns!

Nature is made to conspire with spirit to emancipate us.

If I only made dances about my own experience in dance, it would always be on my track, and I don't want that, I want to be on the track of where dance can take me.

If you've been on the covers of some magazines and been in a few movies that have been seen by people, for some reason, women seem to be drawn to you.