Nothing so much enhances a good as to make sacrifices for it.

Art like life, should be free, since both are experimental.

Rejection is a form of self-assertion. You have only to look back upon yourself as a person who hates this or that to discover what it is that you secretly love.

Photography at first was asked to do nothing but embalm our best smiles for the benefit of our friends and our best clothes for the amusement of posterity. Neither thing lasts, and photography came as a welcome salve to keep those precious, if slightly ridiculous, things a little longer in the world.

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Does the thoughtful man suppose that...the present experiment in civilization is the last world we will see?

Lovely promise and quick ruin are seen nowhere better than in Gothic architecture.