To substitute judgments of fact for judgments of value is a sign of pedantic and borrowed criticism.

The man who would emancipate art from discipline and reason is trying to elude rationality, not merely in art, but in all existence.

There is nothing sweeter than to be sympathized with.

Nothing can be lower or more wholly instrumental than the substance and cause of all things.

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

The sophisticated concern about art sinks before a spontaneous love of reality, and I thank the photograph for being so transparent a vehicle for things.

Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand.