There is nothing harder to learn than painting and nothing which most people take less trouble about learning.

It is true that I am of an older fashion; much that I love has been destroyed or sent into exile.

Leaving the complications of the human breakfast-table out of account, in an elemental sense, the egg only exists to produce the chicken. But the chicken does not exist only in order to produce another egg. He may also exist to amuse himself, to praise God, and even to suggest ideas to a French dramatist. Being a conscious life, he is, or may be, valuable in himself.

There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.

Marxism: The theory that all the important things in history are rooted in an economic motive, that history is a science, a science of the search for food.

Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.

Dear Sir: Regarding your article 'What's Wrong with the World?' I am. Yours truly.