One can bear anything of which one is able to conceive.

Most new discoveries are suddenly-seen things that were always there. A new idea is a light that illuminates presences which simply had no form before the light fell on them.

In human life, art may arise from almost any activity, and once it does so, it is launched on a long road of exploration, invention, freedom to the limits of extravagance, interference to the point of frustration, finally discipline, controlling constant change and growth.

Common-sense knowledge is prompt, categorical, and inexact.

Every artistic form reflects the dynamism that is constantly building up the life of feeling.

value exists only where there is consciousness. Where nothing ever is felt, nothing matters.

The high intellectual value of images, however, lies in the fact that they usually, and perhaps always, fit more than one actual experience.