The most important thing in life is to see to it that you are never beaten..

One can fool life for a long time, but in the end it always makes us what we were intended to be..

A break in the established order is never the work of chance. It is the outcome of a man's resolve to turn life to account..

The ordinary man puts up a struggle against all that is not himself, whereas it is against himself, in a limited but all-essential field, that the ar….

The great Christian art did not die because all possible forms had been used up; it died because faith was being transformed into piety. Now, the sam….

The world of art is not a world of immortality but of metamorphosis..

The artist is not the transcriber of the world, he is its rival..

The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell..

Some pictures are in the gallery because they belong to humanity and others because they belong to the United States..

There's no such thing as a grown up person..

The truth of a man is first and foremost what he hides..

The truth about a man lies first and foremost in what he hides..

The true painter strives to paint what can only be seen through his world..

Surely that little pseudo-gothic church on Broadway, hidden amongst the skyscrapers, is symbolic of the age! On the whole face of the globe the civil….

The present age delights in unearthing a great man's secrets; for one thing because we like to temper our admiration and also perhaps we have a vague….

Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real..

To love a painting is to feel that this presence is ... not an object but a voice..

Culture is the sum of all the forms of art, of love, and of thought, which, in the coarse or centuries, have enabled man to be less enslaved.

The thrill of creation which we experience which we experience when we see a masterpiece is not unlike the feeling of the artist who created it; such….

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's….

Even the West has known the architecture of empty space, whose object, for thousands of years, has been less to construct divine houses, than to crea….