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

A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the oneself that there is no self left to die.

Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.

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

The average European does not seem to feel free until he succeeds in enslaving and oppressing others.

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.