Pride, like humility, is destroyed by one's insistence that he possesses it.

Lives devoted to Beauty seldom end well.

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

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 recognized achievements of some Negroes, despite rigid racial barriers, indicate that society by its prejudices may be depriving itself of valuable contributions from many others. It is now doubtful whether America can afford the luxury of such a waste of human resources.

The eye instinctively looks for analogies and amplifies them, so that a face imagined in the pattern of a wallpaper may become more vivid than a photograph.