It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.

One great thing about growing old is that nothing is going to lead to anything. Everything is of the moment.

Art is the clothing of a revelation

This is an important point about symbols: they do not refer to historical events; they refer through historical events to spiritual or psychological principles and powers that are of yesterday, today, and tomorrow, and that are everywhere.

What we are really living for is the experience of life, both the pain and the pleasure.

Enlarge the pupil of the eye, so that the body with its attendant personality will no longer obstruct the view. Immortality is then experienced as a present fact.

The function of the society is to cultivate the individual. It is not the function of the individual to support society.