The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.

In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.

If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system being practiced, he commits so many marginal errors himself that he is worn out before he can establish his point.

The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.

A people that grows accustomed to sloppy writing is a people in the process of losing grip on its empire and on itself.

If a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.