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

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

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

I believe in the God-given genius of certain individuals, and I value a society that makes their existence possible.

A lot of people you think you know you don't know until you find out you don't know then it may be too late to know.

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.

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