"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"

"Fraternity without absorption, union without fusion"

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

"Every painting is a voyage into a sacred harbour"

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

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

"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"