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

Just as a classical dancer repeats the same movements again and again, in order to achieve a greater perfection of line and balance, so Degas repeats the same motifs - it was one of the things that gave him so much sympathy with dancers.

Ingres was one of those artists to whom the outline was something sacred and magical, and the reason is that it was the means of reconciling the major conflict in his art, the conflict between abstraction and sensibility.

Leonardo is the Hamlet of art history whom each of us must recreate for himself.

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

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

All great civilisations, in their early stages, are based on success in war.