Few people can look at a painting longer than it takes to peel an orange and eat it.

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

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

All great civilisations, in their early stages, are based on success in war.

Devotion to the facts will always give the pleasures of recognition; adherence to the rules of design, the pleasures of order and certainty.

The history of art cannot be properly understood without some reference to the history of science. In both we are studying the symbols by which man affirms his mental scheme, and these symbols, be they pictorial or mathematical, a fable or formula, will reflect the same changes.

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