A smile is the universal welcome.
Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.
A liberal mind is a mind that is able to imagine itself believing anything.
A joke is not a thing but a process, a trick you play on the listener's mind. You start him off toward a plausible goal, and then by a sudden twist you land him nowhere at all or just where he didn't expect to go.
The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.
I don't know why it is we are in such a hurry to get up when we fall down. You might think we would lie there and rest for a while.