Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.

America is a young country with an old mentality.

Repetition is the only form of permanence that Nature can achieve.

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.

Religion is the love of life in the consciousness of impotence.

The pride of the artisan in his art and its uses is pride in himself...It is in his skill and ability to make things as he wishes them to be that he rejoices.

Sanctity and genius are as rebellious as vice.