A truly appreciative child will break, lose, spoil, or fondle to death any really successful gift within a matter of minutes.

For all its flexibility, television is more a mirror of taste than a shaper of it.

The world of the arts is by no means always comfortable, but neither is it likely ever to be boring. It is full of surprises, humor, traps for the unwary, and challenges to smugness. It is a world of moods as well as of revelation, of beliefs and fears, of unpleasant truth as well as of delicious fantasy. Perhaps it is arrogant to say that anyone who does not venture into this world is only half-interested in life. I say it, nonetheless.

The true snob never rests; there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

In my estimation, the only thing that is more to be guarded against than bad taste is good taste.

The bungalow had more to do with how Americans live today than any other building that has gone remotely by the name of architecture in our history.

The Art Snob will stand back from a picture at some distance, his head cocked slightly to one side