Taste begins when appetite is satisfied..

There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man's reason has never learnt to separate them..

Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities..

Art is mind and heart and touch as much and more than it is mere instrument, technique - without which however it cannot exist at all..

Miracles happen to those who believe in them..

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

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….

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

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

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

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 ….

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….

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

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

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

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

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 ….

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….

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

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