« ... Every man, every woman has the right to belong to a community. and the Republicans even more than the others, since they have a duty to forge one. They must subordinate the natural one, that of the lineage, to a cultural community, conscious and constructed, in the same way that they subordinate the right of blood to the right of the soil, without denying the first. It is when the Republic is no longer a community of images, notes, dreams and wills that repressed communitarianisms rise to the surface and take revenge.... »

« Humanism tolerates "the praise of the hand", the organ of the Sovereign Spirit, but recoils from the praise of the machine (the most critical examination of which is still a variant). Automation positively puts him out of it. »

« To say, as Gombrich in the incipit of his "History of Art" that there is no art but only artists, is to push back the problem: since when are there artists and why? "Art is all that men call it"? And what was there in the absence of its own name, before the passage of the shop in the studiolo and the ghilde at the Academy? It is not the artist who makes the art, it is the notion of artist, and it emerges in majesty only with the Florentine Quattrocento, in this period that goes from the conquest by the painters of their corporate autonomy (1378) to the funeral apotheosis of Michelangelo, directed by Vasari (1564). »