That is why I believe that art is so much more significant than either economics or philosophy. It is the direct measure of man’s spiritual vision.

To realize that new world we must prefer the values of freedom and equality above all other values – above personal wealth, technical power and nationalism.

Spontaneity is not enough – or, to be more exact, spontaneity is not possible until there is an unconscious coordination of form, space and vision.

The worth of a civilization or a culture is not valued in the terms of its material wealth or military power, but by the quality and achievements of its representative individuals – its philosophers, its poets and its artists.

Progress is measured by richness and intensity of experience – by a wider and deeper apprehension of the significance and scope of human existence.

Art is always the index of social vitality, the moving finger that records the destiny of a civilization. A wise statesman should keep an anxious eye on this graph, for it is more significant than a decline in exports or a fall in the value of a nation’s currency.

And again I answer that it is only in the degree that the slave is emancipated and the personality differentiated that we can speak of progress.

The earliest records of our species point to group organizations - the primitive horde, nomadic tribes, settlements, communities, cities, nations.

Simplicity is not a goal, but one arrives at simplicity in spite of oneself, as one approaches the real meaning of things.

Great changes in the destiny of mankind can be effected only in the minds of little children.