I have not the slightest doubt that this form of individuation represents a higher stage in the evolution of mankind.

An enormous amount of art and literature is erotic in the sense that it stimulates vague sexual emotions, but it has no pornographic intention or effect because "it leaves everything to the imagination." The consumer has to invent his own images, and it is felt, I do not know with what justification, that there is no harm in this.

The sensitive artist knows that a bitter wind is blowing.

The only sin is ugliness, and if we believed this with all our being, all other activities of the human spirit could be left to take care of themselves.

The worth of a civilization or a culture is not valued in the terms of its material wealth or military power, but by the quality and achievements of its representative individuals - its philosophers, its poets and its artists.

Art is pattern informed by sensibility.

It was play rather than work which enabled man to evolve his higher faculties - everything we mean by the word 'culture'.