No education is worth having that does not teach the lesson of concentration on a task, however unattractive. These lessons, if not learnt early, will be learnt, if at all, with pain and grief in later life.

No taste is so acquired as that for someone else's quality of mind.

Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth.

That sinister Stonehenge of economic man, Rockefeller Center.

No education is worth having that does not teach the lesson of concentration on a task, however unattractive. These lessons, if not learnt early, will be learnt, if at all, with pain and grief in later life.

When even despair ceases to serve any creative purpose, then surely we are justified in suicide.

The more I see of life the more I perceive that only through solitary communion with nature can one gain an idea of its richness and meaning.