America is a construction of mind, not of race or inherited class or ancestral territory.

In the Somme valley, the back of language broke. It could no longer carry its former meanings. World War I changed the life of words and images in art, radically and forever. It brought our culture into the age of mass-produced, industrialized death. This, at first, was indescribable.

I have never been against new art as such; some of it is good, much is crap, most is somewhere in between.

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt.

Transportation made sublimation literal. It conveyed evil to another world.

Christmas began in the heart of God. It is complete only when it reaches the heart of man.Why wait for a call when you have a command?

One thing is sure: the Sagrada Familia is the first Catholic temple whose bacon was ever saved by Shinto tourism. Not even Gaudi, who believed in miracles, could have forseen that.