However much the various phases of the French Revolution may have modelled themselves on Roman history the early phase on Republican virtue, the later on Imperial grandeur the fact remains that classicism depended on a fixed and rational philosophy; whereas the spirit of the Revolution was one of change and of emotion.

Lives devoted to Beauty seldom end well.

The dark ghettos are social, political, educational and-above all-economic colonies. Their inhabitants are subject peoples, victims of the greed, cruelty, insensitivity, guilt, and fear of their masters.

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

You have no idea what portrait painters suffer from the vanity of their sitters.

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

Heroes do not easily tolerate the company of other heroes.