All of the arts, poetry, music, ritual, the visible arts, the theater, must singly and together create the most comprehensive art of all, a humanized society, and its masterpiece, free man.

Consistency, commonly thought of as a good thing, requires you to be as ignorant today as you wre a year ago.

Art is mind and heart and touch as much and more than it is mere instrument, technique – without which however it cannot exist at all.

Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one’s training.

There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man’s reason has never learned to separate them.

We usually meet all of our relatives only at funerals where somebody always observes: “Too bad we can’t get together more often”.

All we really want is otherness, tossing from side to side, and greeting every toss with shouts of welcome, and of contempt for the previous toss

Governments last only as long as the undertaxed can defend themselves against the overtaxed

It makes me happy to encounter goodness, love of work, humane intelligence, and people no matter at what kind of job, be it ever so humble, or ever so exalted, who do it well and con amore.

The ultimate justification of the work of art is to help the spectator to become a work of art himself.