There is only one thing that stands in our midst, attenuated and threatened, but enthroned in some power like a ghost of the Middle Ages: the Trade Unions.

There is nothing harder to learn than painting and nothing which most people take less trouble about learning. An art school is a place where about three people work with feverish energy and everybody else idles to a degree that I should have conceived unattainable by human nature.

Most Americans ... have a sort of permanent intoxication from within, a sort of invisible champagne.

I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I believed in liberals.

Boys like romantic tales; but babies like realistic tales-because they find them romantic.

A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.

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