Culture is the sum of all the forms of art, of love and of thought, which, in the course of centuries, have enabled man to be less enslaved.

Civilization can be defined at once by the basic questions it asks and by those it does not ask.

L'intellectuel est celui qui ordonne sa vie a une idee.

Art is a revolt against fate.

What is a well-chosen collection of pictures, but walls hung round with thoughts?

All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.

The gipsy tents are on the down, The gipsy girls are here; And it's O to be off and away from the town With a gipsy for my dear!