All persistent practices in art have a creative function. They may serve several ends, but the chief one is the shaping of the work.

The seeds of civilization are in every culture, but it is city life that brings them to fruition.

Most new discoveries are suddenly-seen things that were always there. A new idea is a light that illuminates presences which simply had no form before the light fell on them.

The first impression of a work of art is its otherness from reality.

The Past, being in the mode of memory, is closed, inalienable, and irreparable.

Fire is a natural symbol of life and passion, though it is the one element in which nothing can actually live.

The secret of 'fusion' is the fact that the artist's eye sees in nature... an inexhaustible wealth of tension, rhythms, continuities, and contrasts which can be rendered in line and color.

Music is the tonal analogue of emotive life.

The high intellectual value of images, however, lies in the fact that they usually, and perhaps always, fit more than one actual experience.

If a work of art is a projection of feeling, its kinship with organic nature will emerge, no matter through how many transformations, logically and inevitably.

The fairytale is irresponsible; it is frankly imaginary, and its purpose is to gratify wishes, as a dream doth flatter.

God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly

Some truths are hard to swallow, so we share it within tales that most people will accept without being frightened by the truth hidden within.

Life teach you lessons and those lessons are very painful.

There is more food in a pennyworth of bread than in a gallon of ale.

One thing I learned in life, the only true friend you have in this world is your self.

Laugh loudly, laugh often, and most important, laugh at yourself.

Donald Trump didn't just throw out the playbook, he set fire to it. And America loved it.

Bought all the Beatle records, I sounded just like Paul.

Things are always worse in the steady watches of the night.

Private faces in public places Are wiser and nicer Than public faces in private places.