identity Quotes

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title.

Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.

We can have no '50-50' allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all.

What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't everyone look at himself in his own particular way? Deformations simply do not exist.

To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.

Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?

My thought is me: that is why I cannot stop thinking. I exist because I think I cannot keep from thinking.

I confused things with their names: that is belief.

Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.

Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.