In our hurried world too little value is attached to the part of the connoisseur and dilettante.

When people ask for time, it's always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it doesn't take half as long to say.

After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.

To visit Morocco is still like turning the pages of some illuminated Persian manuscript all embroidered with bright shapes and subtle lines.

Habit is necessary. It is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive ... one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in the big things, and happy in small ways.

When a man says he doesn't understand a woman it's because he won't take the trouble.

Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heretical definition of the freedom of art. For if art is freedom of the spirit, how can it exist within the oppressors?