"Frankly, these days, without a theory to go with it, I can't see a painting"

"It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer?"

"Better one's House be too little one day than too big all the Year after"

"We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own"

"It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal. It is like a stone wasted on the field without becoming a part of any edifice"

"America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between"

"Fraternity without absorption, union without fusion"

"Women, can't live with them, can't live without them"

"Every painting is a voyage into a sacred harbour"

"My sorrow, when she's here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane"

"One man with a head on his shoulders is worth a dozen without"