Sweeping, confident articles on the future seem to me, intellectually, the most disreputable of all forms of public utterance.

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

Racial prejudices are indication of a disturbed and potentially unstable society.

It would be unfair to say that I prefer the back of a book to its contents, but it is true that the sight of a lot of books gives me the hope that I may some day read them, which sometimes develops into the belief that I have read them.

We can hardly imagine a state of mind in which all material objects were regarded as symbols of spirtual truths or episodes in sacred history. Yet, unless we make this effort of imagination, Medieval art is largely incomprehensible.

A racist system inevitably destroys and damages human beings; it brutalizes and dehumanizes them, blacks and whites alike.

Few people can look at a painting longer than it takes to peel an orange and eat it.