Thinking ahead, what really happens to us will depend on how many people we have who are of the great and sober and dynamic middle-class - the strivers, the planners, the ambitious ones.

"I pay my taxes," says somebody, as if that were an act of virtue instead of one of compulsion.

In all my life I have treated the press with marked contempt and remarkable success.

Modern history is, as you all know, full of examples of great movements that disappeared because they had ceased to have any genuine reason for existence. The important thing is to have a faith to live by, and that goes for us in this party.

A manager may be tough and practical, squeezing out, while the going is good, the last ounce of profit and dividend . . .

One thing about bureaucrats is that they never swallow their young. Leave them alone and you'll find them increasing every year.

Experiment is necessary in establishing an academy, but certain principles must apply to this business of art as to any other business which affects the artistic tic sense of the community. Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.