Art is both creation and recreation. Of the two ideas, I think art as recreation or as sheer play of the human spirit is more important.

I do not think that any civilization can be called complete until it has progressed from sophistication to unsophistication, and made a conscious return to simplicity of thinking and living.

I have a hankering to go back to the Orient and discard my necktie. Neckties strangle clear thinking.

True peace of mind comes from accepting the worst. Psychologically, I think it means a release of energy.

Everything that we think God has in his mind necessarily proceeds from our own mind; it is what we imagine to be in God's mind, and it is really difficult for human intelligence to guess at a divine intelligence. What we usually end up with by this sort of reasoning is to make God the color-sergeant of our army and to make Him as chauvinistic as ourselves.