I still think sincere pessimism the unpardonable sin.

Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

There are two kinds of peacemakers in the modern world; and they are both, though in various ways, a nuisance. The first peacemaker is the man who goes about saying that he agrees with everybody. He confuses everybody. The second peacemaker is the man who goes about saying that everybody agrees with him. He enrages everybody. Between the two of them they produce a hundred times more disputes and distractions than we poor pugnacious people would ever have thought of in our lives.

An artist will betray himself by some sort of sincerity.

If man is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust.

Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.

The modern world seems to have no notion of preserving different things side by side, of allowing its proper and proportionate place to each, of saving the whole varied heritage of culture. It has no notion except that of simplifying something by destroying nearly everything.