Until you know who has lent what to whom, you know nothing whatever of politics, you know nothing whatever of history, you know nothing of international wrangles.

Gloom and solemnity are entirely out of place in even the most rigorous study of an art originally intended to make glad the heart of man.

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

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.

The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in his creation.

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