The responsibility of the player facing a pawn-centre is to apply constant pressure to it, and try to prove it to be a weakness instead of a strength. Jeremy Silman, How To Reassess Your Chess
The first responsibility of the owner of a big centre is to make it indestructible. If this can be done, then the opponent will be without play and will smother to death in the folds of his own position. Jeremy Silman, How To Reassess Your Chess