With one day's reading a man may have the key in his hands.

Don't be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.

Art is to be admired rather than explained. The jargon of these sculptors is beyond me. I do not precisely know why I admire a green granite, female, apparently pregnant monster with one eye going around a square corner.

Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.

The natural object is always the adequate symbol.

Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.

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