Real thinking is possible only in the light of genuine language, no matter how limited, how primitive.

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.

You can't make anything if you're lost to yourself. You'll want to again, it's who you are. Wren, grieving is hard. Complex. Takes its own time.

The difference between one man and another is not mere ability ... it is energy.

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

Do not wait for the Last Judgment. It takes place every day.

I have always felt I lived on the high seas, threatened, at the heart of a royal happiness.

Mystery is like a kind of atmosphere which bathes the greatest works of the masters.

Do I believe in giving up? No, I don't.

Since before time and space were, the Tao is. It is beyond is and is not.

We put our fingers in the eyes of those who doubt that Libya is ruled by anyone other than its people.

When I was a kid I had this funny blonde hair and everyone called me 'Chick' because I looked like Tweety Bird.