Is not art a tool we employ to peel the kitsch off life? Layer by layer art strips life bare. The more abstract it gets, the more transparent the air is. Can it be that the farther it is removed from life, the clearer art becomes?

... there is a particular propensity in the world for people, wherever they appear in great numbers, to permit themselves collectively everything that would be forbidden them individually.

Life forms a surface that acts as if it could not be otherwise, but under its skin things are pounding and pulsing.

There is nothing in this world as invisible as a monument

An impractical man--which he not only seems to be, but really is--will always be unreliable and unpredictable in his dealings with others. He will engage in actions that mean something else to him than to others, but he is at peace with himself about everything as long as he can make it all come together in a fine idea.

We do not have too much intellect and too little soul, but too little intellect in matters of the soul.

It is, all in all, a historic error to believe that the master makes the school; the students make it!