I never felt that there was anything enviable in youth. I cannot recall that any of us, as youths, admired our condition to excess or had a desire to prolong it.

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

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

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

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

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.