Time narrows or expands according to how we approach it. It varies with a man’s breadth, with his heart.

There is nothing more wonderful than freedom of speech.

People seldom learn from the mistakes of others-not because they deny the value of the past, but because they are faced with new problems.

There is no progress in art.

We know that art is connected with the land, with its salt, with its smell, that outside of national culture there is no art. Cosmopolitanism - a world in which things lose their color and form, and words lose their significance. We love in our past all that we consider native, wonderful and fair.

Time narrows or expands according to how we approach it. It varies with a man’s breadth, with his heart.

Every master knows that the material teaches the artist.