That is why I believe that art is so much more significant than either economics or philosophy. It is the direct measure of man's spiritual vision.

I call religion a natural authority, but it has usually been conceived as a supernatural authority.

These are the sensations and feelings that are gradually blunted by education, staled by custom, rejected in favor of social conformity.

Sentir mon Cœur is a privilege only granted to the exceptional man - the one who has the ability to find words that exactly (or, to himself, convincingly) express his feelings... The value of words help to define the feeling itself... The common failure is to allow habitual words and phrases, flowing spontaneously from the memory, to determine and deform the feelings.

The most general law in nature is equity-the principle of balance and symmetry which guides the growth of forms along the lines of the greatest structural efficiency.

You might think that it would he the natural desire of every man to develop as an independent personality, but this does not seem to be true.

The farther a society progresses, the more clearly the individual becomes the antithesis of the group.