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

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

Ruthless, greedy, tyrannical, disreputable... they have had one principle worth all the rest, the principle of delight!

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.

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

I believe in the God-given genius of certain individuals, and I value a society that makes their existence possible.

No nude, however abstract, should fail to arouse in the spectator some vestige of erotic feeling... The desire to grasp and be united with another human is so fundamental a part of our nature that our judgement of what is known as 'pure form' is inevitably influenced by it, and one of the difficulties of the nude as a subject for art is that these instincts cannot be hidden.