Changes in the structure of society are not brought about solely by massive engines of doctrine. The first flash of insight which persuades human beings to change their basic assumptions is usually contained in a few phrases.

All color is no color.

Changes in the structure of society are not brought about solely by massive engines of doctrine. The first flash of insight which persuades human beings to change their basic assumptions is usually contained in a few phrases.

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

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

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 still try to learn from history. History is ourselves.

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