A grapefruit is just a lemon that saw an opportunity and took advantage of it.

He who stands most remote from his age is he who mirrors it best.

The most terrible thing about it is not that it breaks one’s heart—hearts are made to be broken—but that it turns one’s heart to stone.

Art is rarely intelligible to the criminal classes.

I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life.

If the Socialism is Authoritarian; if there are Governments armed with economic power as they are now with political power; if, in a word, we are to have Industrial Tyrannies, then the last state of man will be worse than the first.

The work of art is to dominate the spectator: the spectator is not to dominate the work of art.