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 principle of equity first came into evidence in Roman jurisprudence and was derived by analogy from the physical meaning of the word.

I am not going to claim that modern anarchism has any direct relation to Roman jurisprudence; but I do claim that it has its basis in the laws of nature rather than in the state of nature.

But all categories of art, idealistic or realistic, surrealistic or constructivist (a new form of idealism) must satisfy a simple test (or they are in no sense works of art): they must persist as objects of contemplation.

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

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.

The work of art... is an instrument for tilling the human psyche, that it may continue to yield a harvest of vital beauty.