One simply turns to the ideological vending machine, and out comes the prepared formulae..

... Art is a soaring exercise of the human imagination..

But in action, one defies one's character..

I am too weary to listen, too angry to hear..

The intellectual takes as a starting point his self and relates the world to his own sensibilities; the scientist accepts an existing field of knowle….

The impulse of the journalist is to be novel, yet to relate his curiosities to the urgencies of the moment; the philosopher seeks what he conceives t….

Art is an end in itself; its values are intrinsic..

Wise men still seek Him today..

Europe, in legend, has always been the home of subtle philosophical discussion; America was the land of grubby pragmatism..

When theology erodes and organization crumbles, when the institutional framework of religion begins to break up, the search for a direct experience w….

Art is the reordering of nature - the qualities of space and time - in new perceptual and material form..

Art is the aesthetic ordering of experience to express meanings in symbolic terms..