The various parts of the body cannot be perceived as simple units and have no clear relationship to one another. In almost every detail the body is not the shape that art has led us to believe it should be.

I wonder if a single thought that has helped forward the human spirit has ever been conceived or written down in an enormous room: except, perhaps, in the reading room of the British Museum.

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

Over and above the political, economic, sociological, and international implications of racial prejudices, their major significance is that they place unnecessary burdens upon human beings.

The nude does not simply represent the body, but relates it, by analogy, to all structures that have become part of our imaginative experience.

Heroes do not easily tolerate the company of other heroes.

A racist system inevitably destroys and damages human beings; it brutalizes and dehumanizes them, blacks and whites alike.