All History Is The History Of Thought.

Art Is Community's Medicine For That Worst Disease Of The Mind, The Corruption Of Consciousness

Art Has No Cosmology, It Gives Us No View Of The Universe; Every Distinct Work Of Art Gives Us A Little Cosmology Of Its Own, And No Ingenuity Will Combine All These Into A Single Whole.

What A Man Is Ashamed Of Is Always At Bottom Himself; And He Is Ashamed Of Himself At Bottom Always For Being Afraid.

If An Artist May Say Nothing Except What He Has Invented By His Own Sole Efforts, It Stands To Reason He Will Be Poor In Ideas. If He Could Take What He Wants Wherever He Could Find It, As Euripides And Dante And Michelangelo And Shakespeare And Bach Were Free, His Larder Would Always Be Full, And His Cookery Might Be Worth Tasting.

As A Child Growing Up Among Artists I Learned To Think Of A Picture Not As A Finished Product Exposed For The Admiration Of The Virtuosi, But As The Visible Record, Lying About The House, Of An Attempt To Solve A Definite Problem In Painting.