One musn't overrate the culture of what used to be called "top people" before the wars. They had charming manners, but they were as ignorant as swans.

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

All color is no color.

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.

Fine colour implies a unified relationship, in which each part is subordinate to the whole, and the transitions between them are felt to be as precious and beautiful as the colours themselves. In fact, the colours themselves must be continuously modified and broken as part of the transition.

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.