Who will dare say he has defined art?

I was always optimistic. And I held to and was guided by my views.

Too much art was no art at all. Like candy instead of bread!

Even the most rational approach to ethics is defenseless if there isn't the will to do what is right.

If decade after decade the truth cannot be told, each person's mind begins to roam irretrievably. One's fellow countrymen become harder to understand than Martians.

If I were called upon to identify briefly the principal trait of the entire 20th century... I would be unable to find anything more precise and pithy than to repeat once again: Men have forgotten God.

The task of the artist is to sense more keenly than others the harmony of the world, the beauty and the outrage of what man has done to it, and poignantly to let people know.