However much the various phases of the French Revolution may have modelled themselves on Roman history the early phase on Republican virtue, the late….

Ruthless, greedy, tyrannical, disreputable... they have had one principle worth all the rest, the principle of delight!.

In time of war all countries behave equally badly, because the power of action is handed over to stupid and obstinate men..

This became Delacroix 's theme: that the achievements of the spirit all that a great library contained were the result of a state of society so delic….

A lot of people you think you know you don't know until you find out you don't know then it may be too late to know..

No nude, however abstract, should fail to arouse in the spectator some vestige of erotic feeling, even if it be only the faintest shadow - and if it ….

I believe in the God-given genius of certain individuals, and I value a society that makes their existence possible..

Leonardo is the Hamlet of art history whom each of us must recreate for himself..

Great works of art can be produced in barbarous societies - in fact the very narrowness of primitive society gives their ornamental art a peculiar co….

The great achievement of the Catholic Church lay in harmonizing, civilizing the deepest impulses of ordinary, ignorant people..

The eye instinctively looks for analogies and amplifies them, so that a face imagined in the pattern of a wallpaper may become more vivid than a phot….

All great civilisations, in their early stages, are based on success in war..

Children who are treated as if they are uneducable almost invariably become uneducable..

Ruskin's much-derided moral theory of art was part of an attempt to show that this human activity, which we value so highly, engaged the whole of hum….

The various parts of the body cannot be perceived as simple units and have no clear relationship to one another. In almost every detail the body is n….

I believe that in spite of the recent triumphs of science, men haven't changed much in the last two thousand years; and in consequence we must still ….

Art...must do something more than give pleasure: it should relate to our own life so as to increase our energy of spirit..

We are part of a great whole. All living things are our brothers and sisters..

Racial prejudices are indication of a disturbed and potentially unstable society..

A racist system inevitably destroys and damages human beings; it brutalizes and dehumanizes them, blacks and whites alike..

I believe order is better than chaos, creation better than destruction. I prefer gentleness to violence, forgiveness to vendetta. On the whole I thin….