The eternal gulf between being and idea can only be bridged by the rainbow of imagination.

The things which can make life enjoyable remain the same. They are, now as before, reading, music, fine arts, travel, the enjoyment of nature, sports, fashion, social vanity (knightly orders, honorary offices, gatherings) and the intoxication of the senses.

Culture means control over nature.

In Europe art has to a large degree taken the place of religion. In America it seems rather to be science.

You can deny, if you like, nearly all abstractions: justice, beauty, truth, goodness, mind, God. You can deny seriousness, but not play.

What the study of history and artistic creation have in common is a mode of forming images.

Play is older than culture, for culture, however inadequately defined, always presupposes human society, and animals have not waited for man to teach them their playing.