What Degas called 'a way of seeing' must consequently bear a wide enough interpretation to include way of being, power, knowledge, and will.

We must always apologize for talking painting.

Just as water, gas, and electricity are brought into our houses from far off to satisfy our needs in response to a minimal effort, so we shall be supplied with visual or auditory images, which will appear and disappear at a simple movement of the hand, hardly more than a sign.

What one wrote playfully, another reads with tension and passion; what one wrote with tension and passion, another reads playfully.

Politeness is organized indifference.

That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false.

Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows.