Those who wish, in the interest of morality, to reduce Leonardo, that inexhaustible source of creative power, to a neutral or sexless agency, have a strange idea of doing service to his reputation.

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

All color is no color.

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

Only the bad artists of the nineteenth century were frightened by the invention of photography; the good ones all welcomed it and used it.

Just as a classical dancer repeats the same movements again and again, in order to achieve a greater perfection of line and balance, so Degas repeats the same motifs - it was one of the things that gave him so much sympathy with dancers.

We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs.