We cannot appreciate the art of any age without first acquiring an equivalent of the experience it depicts.

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

In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principle.

The reason why research is like sculpting from memory is that in neither is there a concrete visible subject to copy directly. The subject - as sculptors themselves are fond of saying - is hidden in the block of material.

I'll read, and then I'll take naps. When I feel sleep coming on, I give in and don't fight it.

We may complain and cavil at the anarchy which is the amateurs natural element, but in soberness we must agree that if the amateur did not exist it would be necessary to invent him.

It is only in the shadows, when some fresh wave, truly original, truly creative, breaks upon the shore, that there will be a rediscovery of the West.