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

People sometimes tell me that they prefer barbarism to civilisation. I doubt if they have given it a long enough trial. Like the people of Alexandria, they are bored by civilisation; but all the evidence suggests that the boredom of barbarism is infinitely greater.

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

The dark ghettos are social, political, educational and-above all-economic colonies. Their inhabitants are subject peoples, victims of the greed, cruelty, insensitivity, guilt, and fear of their masters.

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.

Our universe cannot even be stated symbolically. And this touches us all more directly than one might suppose. For example, artists, who have been very little influenced by social systems, have always responded instinctively to latent assumptions about the shape of the universe. The incomprehensibility of our new cosmos seems to me, ultimately, to be the reason for the chaos of modern art.

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