« Our look was magical before it was artistic. It is now becoming economical. There is no image per se. Its status and powers have varied with technical revolutions and collective beliefs. Will the era of images have been only a brief break between the time of the "idols" and that of the "visual" where we entered? »

« The ridiculousness probably began in our sixties, with the industrialization of travel, the charter, the hippies, the rock concerts, the "civilization of leisure". The appearance of two young hikers mowed, shirtless, "structuralist beard" and drinking at the neck is enough to plunge Paul Morand into the depression, at the end of his Venice. There was something: in the supreme crypt, to find ourselves persecuted by waste, when we observed as early as 1933: "At this moment, all countries exterminate their vermin, except ours." It was after 68. »

« The poet-mathematician is a pacifist and believes in Reason as a unifying power of nations and a factor of peace. »