The dance is the mother of all languages.

As a child growing up among artists I learned to think of a picture not as a finished product exposed for the admiration of the virtuosi, but as the visible record, lying about the house, of an attempt to solve a definite problem in painting.

What a man is ashamed of is always at bottom himself; and he is ashamed of himself at bottom always for being afraid.

Nothing capable of being memorized is history.

The artist must prophesy not in the sense that he foretells things to come, but in the sense that he tells his audience, at the risk of their displeasure, the secrets of their own hearts

All history is the history of thought.

The history of thought, and therefore all history, is the re-enactment of past thought in the historian's own mind.