The thrill of creation which we experience which we experience when we see a masterpiece is not unlike the feeling of the artist who created it; such a work is a fragment of the world which he has annexed and which belongs to him alone.

Culture is the sum of all the forms of art, of love, and of thought, which, in the coarse or centuries, have enabled man to be less enslaved

Some pictures are in the gallery because they belong to humanity and others because they belong to the United States.

Always, however brutal an age may actually have been, its style transmits its music only.

Every creation is, at its root, the struggle between potential form and imitated form.

The truth of a man is first and foremost what he hides.

An art book is a museum without walls.