We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs.

All color is no color.

The eye instinctively looks for analogies and amplifies them, so that a face imagined in the pattern of a wallpaper may become more vivid than a photograph.

Almost all great painters in old age arrive at the same kind of broad, simplified style, as if they wanted to summarise the whole of their experience in a few strokes and blobs of colour.

Art...must do something more than give pleasure: it should relate to our own life so as to increase our energy of spirit.

Children who are treated as if they are uneducable almost invariably become uneducable.

Only the bad artists of the nineteenth century were frightened by the invention of photography; the good ones all welcomed it and used it.