When I have been unhappy, I have heard an opera... and it seemed the shrieking of winds; when I am happy, a sparrow's chirp is delicious to me. But it is not the chirp that makes me happy, but I that make it sweet.

Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.

There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation.

Government and cooperation are in all things the laws of life. Anarchy and competition, the laws of death.

We are, after all, only trustees of the wealth we possess. Without the community and its resources... there would be little wealth for anyone.

When I have been unhappy, I have heard an opera... and it seemed the shrieking of winds; when I am happy, a sparrow's chirp is delicious to me. But it is not the chirp that makes me happy, but I that make it sweet.

You will never love art well until you love what she mirrors better.