“The names of minerals and the minerals themselves do not differ from each other, because at the bottom of both the material and the print is the beginning of an abysmal number of fissures. Words an...”

“Nature does not proceed in a straight line, it is rather a sprawling development.”

“Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues.”

“When a finished work of 20th century sculpture is placed in an 18th century garden, it is absorbed by the ideal representation of the past, thus reinforcing political and social values that are no ...”

“Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future.”

“Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.”

“Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose.”

“The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are. A great...”

“What we do see depends mainly on what we look for. ... In the same field the farmer will notice the crop, the geologists the fossils, botanists the flowers, artists the colouring, sportmen the cove...”

“What we get when we turn pro is we find our power. We find our will and our voice and we find our self-respect. We become who we always were but had, until then, been afraid to embrace and live out.”