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….

We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs..

A visual experience is vitalizing. Whereas to write great poetry, to draw continuously on one's inner life, is not merely exhausting, it is to keep a….

The dark ghettos are social, political, educational and-above all-economic colonies. Their inhabitants are subject peoples, victims of the greed, cru….

Fine colour implies a unified relationship, in which each part is subordinate to the whole, and the transitions between them are felt to be as precio….

The difference between what we see and a sheet of white paper with a few thin lines on it is very great. Yet this abstraction is one which we seem to….

The illustrator is essentially a reporter: his subjects come from the outside, lit by a flash. A subject comes to the classical artist from inside, a….

Changes in the structure of society are not brought about solely by massive engines of doctrine. The first flash of insight which persuades human bei….

The recognized achievements of some Negroes, despite rigid racial barriers, indicate that society by its prejudices may be depriving itself of valuab….

Only the bad artists of the nineteenth century were frightened by the invention of photography; the good ones all welcomed it and used it..

Sweeping, confident articles on the future seem to me, intellectually, the most disreputable of all forms of public utterance..

Few people can look at a painting longer than it takes to peel an orange and eat it..

Gargoyles were the complement to saints; Leonardo's caricatures were complementary to his untiring search for ideal beauty. And gargoyles were the ex….

The nude does not simply represent the body, but relates it, by analogy, to all structures that have become part of our imaginative experience..

I just don't think the moon is going to be an adequate substitute for the fact that we haven't addressed ourselves to clearing up the slums..

Conventional nudes based on classical originals could bear no burden of thought or inner life without losing their formal completeness..

It would be unfair to say that I prefer the back of a book to its contents, but it is true that the sight of a lot of books gives me the hope that I ….

People sometimes tell me that they prefer barbarism to civilisation. I doubt if they have given it a long enough trial. Like the people of Alexandria….

Ingres was one of those artists to whom the outline was something sacred and magical, and the reason is that it was the means of reconciling the majo….

All color is no color..