Art is mind and heart and touch as much and more than it is mere instrument, technique - without which however it cannot exist at all.

I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours.

Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one's training.

As I got warmed up, and felt perfectly at home in talk, I heard myself boasting, lying, exaggerating. Oh, not deliberately, far from it. It would be unconvivial and dull to stop and arrest the flow of talk, and speak only after carefully considering whether I was telling the truth.

Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

Art, in the widest sense of the word, is the instrument Hellenism has used and would use for that purpose. All the arts, poetry, music, ritual, the visual arts, the theatre, must work singly and together to create the most comprehensive art of all, a humanized society, and its masterpiece, the free man.

I would willingly stand at street corners, hat in hand, begging passerby to drop their unused minutes into it.