1. “When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase.”
2. “The ultimate justification of the work of art is to help the spectator to become a work of art himself.”
3. “Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.”
4. “Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.”
5. “Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one’s training.”
6. “Miracles happen to those who believe in them.”
7. “Government lasts as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed”
8. “Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.”
9. “Art is mind and heart and touch as much and more than it mere instrument, technique – without which however it cannot exist at all.
10. “Taste begins when appetite is satisfied.”
11. “Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science.”
12. “Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity.”
13. “There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man’s reason has never learnt to separate them.”
14. “One can repent even of having repented.”
15. “No artifact is a work of art if it does not help to humanize us. Without art…our world would have remained a jungle.”
