Ritual is the most primitive reflection of serious thought, a slow deposit, as it were, of people's imaginative insight into life.

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.

Electricians that like good health avoid the known biologically toxic very high powered electrical utility jobs.

Ego will always conduct itself to make sure that it does not appear bad.

Canada has no cultural unity no linguistic unity no religious unity no economic unity no geographic unity. All it has is unity.

Sound had always been my portal to poetry, but in the beginning, sound was imagined through the eye.

Why, in the Peking Opera, are women's roles played by men?...Because only a man knows how a woman is supposed to act.

No one should be held back from realising their potential by fears that they will not be able to afford to go to university or that they will graduate with unmanageable levels of debt.

Our human laws are but the copies, more or less imperfect, of the eternal laws, so far as we can read them.

A simple layman armed with Scripture is greater than the mightiest pope without it

Let us not wallow in the valley of despair.

Was it frisson when you saw a guy smile and it made your heart act all weird?