I walk in the garden, I look at the flowers and shrubs and trees and discover in them an exquisiteness of contour, a vitality of edge, or a vigour of spring, as well as an infinite variety of colour that no artefact I have seen in the last sixty years can rival...each day, as I look, I wonder where my eyes were yesterday.

Miracles happen to those who believe in them.

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

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

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

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.