Heroes do not easily tolerate the company of other heroes.

Just as a classical dancer repeats the same movements again and again, in order to achieve a greater perfection of line and balance, so Degas repeats the same motifs - it was one of the things that gave him so much sympathy with dancers.

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

Ruthless, greedy, tyrannical, disreputable... they have had one principle worth all the rest, the principle of delight!

I believe in the God-given genius of certain individuals, and I value a society that makes their existence possible.

I believe order is better than chaos, creation better than destruction. I prefer gentleness to violence, forgiveness to vendetta. On the whole I think that knowledge is preferable to ignorance, and I am sure that human sympathy is more valuable than ideology. I believe that in spite of the recent triumphs of science, men haven't changed much in the last two thousand years; and in consequence we must try to learn from history.

I believe in courtesy, the ritual by which we avoid hurting other people's feelings by satisfying our own egos.