When people accept futility and the absurd as normal, the culture is decadent.

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

Political correctness does not legislate tolerance; it only organizes hatred.

Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in a memorable form - or else it is not art.

If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age.

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.

Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or a vital deficiency, opinion swings between considering intellect a privilege and seeing it as a handicap