Unmitigated seriousness is always out of place in human affairs.

The spirit's foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication.

Emotion is primarily about nothing and much of it remains about nothing to the end.

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.

Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject.

History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.

Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer.