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.

Let us not go faster than God. It is our emptiness and our thirst that He needs, not our plentitude.

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

Americans seem sometimes to believe that if you are a thinker you must be a frowning bore, because thinking is so dam serious.

We do not need a truth to serve us, we need a truth that we can serve

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

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.