Art is limitation; the essence of every picture is the frame. If you draw a giraffe, you must draw him with a long neck. If in your bold creative way you hold yourself free to draw a giraffe with a short neck, you will really find that you are not free to draw a giraffe.

Man is not merely an evolution but rather a revolution.

Children feel the whiteness of the lily with a graphic and passionate clearness which we cannot give them at all. The only thing we can give them is information-the information that if you break the lily in two it won't grow again.

We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners.

If the common man in the past had a grave respect for property, it may conceivably have been because he sometimes had some of his own.

The past is not what it was.

When a man ceases to believe in god, he does not believe in nothing. He believes in everything.