It is good to live in a country where all are immigrants ... the newcomer is simply the latest arrival.

All perceiving is also thinking, all reasoning is also intuition, all observation is also invention.

Entropy theory, on the other hand, is not concerned with the probability of succession in a series of items but with the overall distribution of kinds of items in a given arrangement.

The least touchable object in the world is the eye.

Now equilibrium is the very opposite of disorder.

The arts are neglected because they are based on perception, and perception is disdained because it is not assumed to involve thought.

Once it is recognized that productive thinking in any area of cognition is perceptual thinking, the central function of art in general education will become evident.

The arts, as a reflection of human existence at its highest, have always and spontaneously lived up to this demand of plenitude. No mature style of art in any culture has ever been simple.

Every act is a visual judgement.

Good art theory must smell of the studio, although its language should differ from the household talk of painters and sculptors.

Order is a necessary condition for making a structure function. A physical mechanism, be it a team of laborers, the body of an animal, or a machine, can work only if it is in physical order.

I live in one of the coastal cities in Southern California, and every so often I like to take a walk down the boardwalk in Venice during the weekends when it is abuzz with lively activity.

American Negro must remake his past in order to make his future.

Communists are frustrated capitalists.

I always had, deep down, a slight aversion toward the purely cerebral in music.

...most of the time we were alone and mixing up our souls ever more and ever more till it would be terribly hard to say good-by.

The schoolteacher is certainly underpaid as a childminder, but ludicrously overpaid as an educator.

When everbody worships all sort of religious lies and illogical myths, dare to be there, in the land of reason!

But what is of great importance to me is observation of the movement of colors.

Only the misfortune of exile can provide the in-depth understanding and the overview into the realities of the world.

I had a gypsy upbringing, so I moved around all over the place and can't remember a street I grew up on.