Advertising has annihilated the power of the most powerful adjectives.

Beware of what you do best; its bound to be a trap.

All nations have present, or past, or future reasons for thinking themselves incomparable.

Thanks to photography, the eye grew accustomed to anticipate what it should see and to see it; and it learned not to see nonexistent things which, hitherto, it had seen so clearly.

Let us enrich ourselves with our mutual differences.

If what has happened in the one person were communicated directly to the other, all art would collapse, all the effects of art would disappear.

History justifies whatever we want it to. It teaches absolutely nothing, for it contains everything and gives examples of everything.