The trouble with Reason is that it becomes meaningless at the exact point where it refuses to act.

Art is the terms of an armistice signed with fate.

History abhors determinism but cannot tolerate chance.

Art is man determined to die sane.

The trouble with Reason is that it becomes meaningless at the exact point where it refuses to act.

The best reason for putting anything down on paper is that one may then change it.

Between the amateur and the professional . . . there is a difference not only in degree but in kind. The skillful man is, within the function of his skill, a different psychological organization. . . . A tennis player or a watchmaker or an airplane pilot is an automatism but he is also criticism and wisdom.