Art, if it is to be reckoned as one of the great values of life, must teach man humility, tolerance, wisdom and magnanimity. The value of art is not beauty, but right action.

No man in his heart is quite so cynical as a well-bred woman.

The spirit is often most free when the body is satiated with pleasure; indeed, sometimes the stars shine more brightly seen from the gutter than from the hilltop.

My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.

Perfect is determined in shortened measures of time, not over long periods of time or lifetimes. It would be unnatural.

I never spend more than one hour in a gallery. That is as long as one's power of appreciation persists.

Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull.