The great dream merchant Disney was a success because make-believe was what everyone seemed to need in a spiritually empty land.

What is the thread of western civilization that distinguished its course in history? It has to do with the preoccupation of western man with his outward command and his sense of superiority.

I plead for conservation of human culture, which is much more fragile than nature herself. We needn't destroy other cultures with the force of our own.

Vitality is radiated from exceptional art and architecture.

We have today a fairly thorough knowledge of the early Greco-Roman period because our motivations are the same.

The artist likes to seem totally responsible for his work. Often he begins to explain it, to make it appear as if it were a reasonable process.

The heart, not the head, must be the guide.