I cannot see that art is anything less than a way of making joys perpetual.

To make laws is a human instinct that arises as soon as food and shelter have been ensured, among all peoples, everywhere.

I have no faith in the sense of comforting beliefs which persuade me that all my troubles are blessings in disguise.

Art and propaganda have this much connection, that if a propaganda makes art impossible, it is clearly damned.

Art is not a plaything, but a necessity, and its essence, form, is not a decorative adjustment, but a cup into which life can be poured and lifted to the lips and be tasted.

I had come to Yugoslavia to see what history meant in flesh and blood.

a good oyster cannot please the palate as acutely as a bad one can revolt it, and a good oyster cannot make him who eats it live for ever though a bad one can make him dead for ever.