The Cathedrals were built to the glory of God; New York was built to the glory of Mammon.

The nude gains its enduring value from the fact that it reconciles several contrary states. It takes the most sensual and immediately interesting object, the human body, and puts it out of reach of time and desire; it takes the most purely rational concept of which mankind is capable, mathematical order, and makes it a delight to the senses; and it takes the vague fears of the unknown and sweetens them by showing that the gods are like men and may be worshiped for their life-giving beauty rather than their death-dealing powers.

Children who are treated as if they are uneducable almost invariably become uneducable.

Ruthless, greedy, tyrannical, disreputable... they have had one principle worth all the rest, the principle of delight!

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

Energy is eternal delight; and from the earliest times human beings have tried to imprison it in some durable hieroglyphic. It is perhaps the first of all the subjects of art.

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