The only domain where the divine is visible is that of art, whatever name we choose to call it..

In ceasing to subordinate creative power to any supreme value, modern art has brought home to us the presence of that creative power throughout the w….

Our characteristic response to the mutilated statue, the bronze dug up from the earth, is revealing. It is not that we prefer time-worn bas-reliefs, ….

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

Every creation is, at its root, the struggle between potential form and imitated form..

Communism destroys democracy. Democracy can also destroy Communism..

Just as a musician loves music and not nightingales, and a poet loves poetry and not sunsets, a painter is not primarily a person who responds to fig….

An individualism which has got beyond the stage of hedonism tends to yield to the lure of the grandiose. It was not man, the individual, nor even the….

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….

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….

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.

Every great masterpiece is a purification of the world..

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….

What is Man? A miserable little pile of secrets..

I don't argue with my enemies; I explain to their children..

A political leader is necessarily an imposter since he believes in solving life's problems without asking its question..

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..

Nothing is harder than to get people to think about what they are going to do..

Our civilization ... is not devaluing its awareness of the unknowable; nor is it deifying it. It is the first civilization that has severed it from r….

And when man faces destiny, destiny ends and man comes into his own..

An artist discovers his genius the day he dares not to please..