Art is both creation and recreation. Of the two ideas, I think art as recreation or as sheer play of the human spirit is more important.

An educated man is one who has the loves and hatreds together.

Neckties strangle clear thinking.

A cocktail party is a place where you talk with a person you do not know about a subject you have no interest in.

Such is human psychology that if we don't express our joy, we soon cease to feel it.

India was China's teacher in religion and imaginative literature, and the world's teacher in trignometry, quandratic equations, grammar, phonetics, Arabian Nights, animal fables, chess, as well as in philosophy, and that she inspired Boccaccio, Goethe, Herder, Schopenhauer, Emerson, and probably also old Aesop.

Reality - Dreams = Animal Being Reality + Dreams = A Heart-Ache (usually called Idealism) Reality + Humor = Realism (also called Conservatism) Dreams - Humor = Fanaticism Dreams + Humor = Fantasy Reality + Dreams + Humor = Wisdom