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

The great achievement of the Catholic Church lay in harmonizing, civilizing the deepest impulses of ordinary, ignorant people.

No nude, however abstract, should fail to arouse in the spectator some vestige of erotic feeling, even if it be only the faintest shadow - and if it does not do so it is bad art and false morals.

A lot of people you think you know you don't know until you find out you don't know then it may be too late to know.

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

All color is no color.

In time of war all countries behave equally badly, because the power of action is handed over to stupid and obstinate men.