Psychoanalysts are not occupied with the minds of their patients; they do not believe in the mind but in a cerebral intestine..

I never felt that there was anything enviable in youth. I cannot recall that any of us, as youths, admired our condition to excess or had a desire to….

We usually meet all of our relatives only at funerals where somebody always observes: "Too bad we can't get together more often"..

The ultimate justification of the work of art is to help the spectator to become a work of art himself..

It makes me happy to encounter goodness, love of work, humane intelligence, and people no matter at what kind of job, be it ever so humble, or ever s….

Who will free me from hurry, flurry, the feeling of a crowd pushing behind me, of being hustled and crushed? How can I regain even for a minute the f….

A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the oneself that there is no self left to die..

Miracles happen to those who believe in them. Otherwise why does not the Virgin Mary appear to Lamaists, Mohammedans, or Hindus who have never heard ….

Enemies could become the best companions. Companionship is based on a common interest, and the greater the interest the closer the companionship. Wha….

German is of stone, limestone, pudding stone, marble, granite even, and so to a considerable degree is English, whereas French is bronze and gives ou….

Pessimism like calumny is easy to do, and attracts immediate attention. The gossiper and the writer may find this out soon enough, and a little encou….

In figure painting, the type of all painting, I have endeavoured to set forth that the principal if not sole source of life enchantments are Tactile ….

International affairs will be placed on a better footing when it is understood that there is no way of punishing a people for the crimes of its ruler….

I walk in the garden, I look at the flowers and shrubs and trees and discover in them an exquisiteness of contour, a vitality of edge, or a vigour of….

I wonder whether art has a higher function than to make me feel, appreciate, and enjoy natural objects for their art value?.

You can parody and make fun of almost anything, but that does not turn the universe into a caricature..

[Describing his house:] It is a library with living rooms attached..

Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one's training..

Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science..

The Renaissance had resulted in the emancipation of the individual, in making him feel that the universe had no other purpose than his happiness. Thi….

Government lasts as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed..