From building a fire one can learn something about artistic composition. If you use only small kindling and large logs, the fire will quickly eat up the small pieces but will not become strong enough to attack the large ones. You must supply a scale of sizes from the smallest to the largest. The human eye also will not make its way into a painting or building unless a continuum of shapes leads from the small to the large, from the large to the small.

In a land of immigrants, one was not an alien but simply the latest arrival.

Variety is more than a means of avoiding boredom, since art is more than an entertainment of the senses.

All perceiving is also thinking, all reasoning is also intuition, all observation is also invention.

When the thing observed... is seen as an agglomeration of pieces, the details lose their meaning and the whole becomes unrecognizable. This is often true of snapshots in which no pattern of salient shapes organizes the mass of vague and complex nuances.

Since mechanically obtained randomness contains all kinds of possible permutations, including the most regular ones, it cannot be relied upon always to exhibit a pervasive irregularity.

The arts are neglected because they are based on perception, and perception is disdained because it is not assumed to involve thought.