The only artist who does not deserve respect is the one who works to please the public, for commercial success or for official success.

The only artist who does not deserve respect is the one who works to please the public, for commercial success or for official success.

God does not ask for 'religious' art or 'Catholic' art. The art he wants for himself is Art, with all its teeth

Power without authority is tyranny.

A man of courage flees forward in the midst of new things.

Since art is a virtue of the intellect, it demands to communicate with the entire universe of the intellect. Hence it is that the normal climate of art is intelligence and knowledge: its normal soil, the civilized heritage of a consistent and integrated system of beliefs and values; its normal horizon , the infinity of human experience enlighted by the passionate insight of anguish or the intellectual virtues of a contemplative mind.

I don't see America as a mainland, but as a sea, a big ocean. Sometimes a storm arises, a formidable current develops, and it seems it will engulf everything. Wait a moment, another current will appear and bring the first one to naught.