Government is the art of the momentary feasible, of the least bad attainable, and not of the rationally most desirable.

One can repent even of having repented.

No artifact is a work of art if it does not help to humanize us. Without art...our world would have remained a jungle.

I wonder whether art has a higher function than to make me feel, appreciate, and enjoy natural objects for their art value?

I am only a picture-taster, the way others are wine-or tea-tasters.

From childhood on I have had the dream of life lived as a sacrament... the dream implied taking life ritually as something holy.

Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope.