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.

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

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

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

I wonder if a single thought that has helped forward the human spirit has ever been conceived or written down in an enormous room: except, perhaps, in the reading room of the British Museum.

Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process.

Lives devoted to Beauty seldom end well.