To hurry through the rise and fall of a fine, full sentence is like defying the role of time in human life.

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.

Conventional nudes based on classical originals could bear no burden of thought or inner life without losing their formal completeness.

The illustrator is essentially a reporter: his subjects come from the outside, lit by a flash. A subject comes to the classical artist from inside, and when he discovers confirmation of it in the outside world he feels that it has been there all the time.

We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs.

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.

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