To watch a football game is to be in a prolonged neurotic doubt as to what you're seeing. It's more like an emergency happening at a distance than a game. I don't wonder the spectators take to drink.

Boredom and fatigue are great historical forces.

I have always been - I think any student of history almost inevitably is - a cheerful pessimist.

You never step in the same river of thought twice, because neither you nor it are the same.

After being boxed in by man and his constructions in Europe and the East, the release into space is exhilarating. The horizon is a huge remote circle, and no hills intervene.

Finding oneself was a misnomer; a self is not found but made.

An artist has every right - one may even say a duty - to exhibit his productions as prominently as he can.