Every significant artist is a metaphysician, a propounder of beauty-truths and form-theories.

Liberate yourselves from everything you know and look with complete innocence at this infinitely improbable thing before you.

I will have no Parsons around me but such as drink deep, ride to Hounds and caress the Wives and Daughters of their Parishioners.A Virtuous Parson does nothing to test or exercise the Faith of his Flock.

The sum of evil, Pascal remarked, would be much diminished if men could only learn to sit quietly in their rooms.

Modern man no longer regards Nature as in any sense divine and feels perfectly free to behave toward her as an overweening conqueror and tyrant.

A million million spermatozoa, All of them alive: Out of their cataclysm but one poor Noah Dare hope to survive.

When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.