If the individual is a unit in a corporate mass, his life is not merely brutish and short, but dull and mechanical.

Morality, as has often been pointed out, is antecedent to religion-it even exists in a rudimentary form among animals.

In History, stagnant waters, whether they be the stagnant waters of custom or those of despotism, harbour no life; life is dependent on the ripples created by a few eccentric individuals. In homage to that life & vitality, the community has to brave certain perils and must countenance a measure of heresy. One must live dangerously if one wants to live at all.

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

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

To realize that new world we must prefer the values of freedom and equality above all other values - above personal wealth, technical power and nationalism.

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.