We are part of a great whole. All living things are our brothers and sisters.

The Cathedrals were built to the glory of God; New York was built to the glory of Mammon.

One musn't overrate the culture of what used to be called "top people" before the wars. They had charming manners, but they were as ignorant as swans.

You have no idea what portrait painters suffer from the vanity of their sitters.

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 still try to learn from history. History is ourselves.

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

Leonardo is the Hamlet of art history whom each of us must recreate for himself.