Religious unity can look like a carnival and religious liberty can look like a funeral.

At the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life is to dig for this sunrise of wonder.

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.

A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life, and find solace in fantasy.

Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

The supreme adventure is being born. There we do walk suddenly into a splendid and startling trap... When we step into the family, by the act of being born, we do step into a world which is incalculable, into a world which has its own strange laws, into a world which could do without us, into a world we have not made. In other words, when we step into the family we step into a fairy-tale.

Progress is a comparative of which we have not settled the superlative.