When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase.

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

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

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

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.

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

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