Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

The children of each generation are taught to want what they are taught they must not have.

Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Every new generation must rewrite history in its own way.

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.

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

To regard such a positive mental science [psychology] as rising above the sphere of history, and establishing the permanent and unchanging laws of human nature, is therefore possible only to a person who mistakes the transient conditions of a certain historical age for the permanent conditions of human life.