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?

[Describing his house:] It is a library with living rooms attached.

The ultimate justification of the work of art is to help the spectator to become a work of art himself.

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.

Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science.