The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.

Art and Religion are two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstasy.

Art has something to do with the achievement of stillness in the midst of chaos. A stillness which characterizes prayer, too, and the eye of the storm... . an arrest of attention in the midst of distraction.

The ultimate justification of the work of art is to help the spectator to become a work of art himself.

Art is I; science is we.

The great work of art is great because it creates a special world of its own. It revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world-the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air.

Art upsets, science reassures.

What was any art but a mold in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself-life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose.

See in nature the cylinder, the sphere, the cone.

Art, we are told, is a criterion of one's taste. How humiliating, should our taste turn out to be bad. Rather as though we were caught stark naked with a poor figure.