Miracles happen to those who believe in them. Otherwise why does not the Virgin Mary appear to Lamaists, Mohammedans, or Hindus who have never heard of her.

Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity.

There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man's reason has never learnt to separate them.

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

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?

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