Almost any fool can paint an academy picture, and any imbecile can shoot off a Kodak.

We do NOT know the past in chronological sequence. It may be convenient to lay it out anesthetized on the table with dates pasted on here and there, but what we know we know by ripples and spirals eddying out from us and from our own time.

There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight

The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation. Neither are they transmitted by book learning.

The artist is the antenna of the race.

Adolf Hitler was a Jeanne d'Arc, a saint. He was a martyr. Like many martyrs, he held extreme views.

Christ can very well stand as an heroic figure. The hero need not be of wisdom all compounded. Also he is not wholly to blame for the religion that's been foisted on to him.