Love joins and then divides. How else would we be growing?

The effective in art is what rapes the emotions of your audience without nourishing its values.

The national characteristics... the restless metaphysical curiosity, the tenderness of good living and the passionate individualism. This is the invisible constant in a place with which the ordinary tourist can get in touch just by sitting quite quietly over a glass of wine in a Paris bistro.

The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it all the time... love lavished on absolute fools. Love's a charity ward, you know.

'We live' writes Pursewarden somewhere 'lives based upon selected fictions. Our view of reality is conditioned by our position in space and time — not by our personalities as we like to think. Thus every interpretation oа reality is based upon a unique position. Two paces east or west and the whole picture is changed.

The heaviest impact of the work of art is in the guts. Art does not reason. It manhandles you and changes you.

An idea is like a rare bird which cannot be seen. What one sees is the trembling of the branch it has just left.