every frontier is doomed to produce an opposition beyond it. Nothing short of the universal can build the unfenced peace.

It is not badness, it is the absence of goodness, which, in Art as in Life, is so depressing.

In one form or another, conscious or unconscious, we have all become propagandists; integrity alone can keep us truthful.

every word calls up far more of a picture than its actual meaning is supposed to do, and the writer has to deal with all these silent associations as well as with the uttered significance.

Whatever the advantages of the machine may be - and they are many - the very ease of its use is bound to make away with intimacy - the intercourse of human beings, of animals, or of that which we still think of as the natural world.

A part of all art is to make silence speak. The things left out in painting, the note withheld in music, the void in architecture - all are as necessary and as active as the utterance itself.

The true call of the desert, of the mountains, or the sea, is their silence - free of the networks of dead speech.