The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.

Loud peace propaganda makes war seem imminent.

Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can’t invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes.

I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.

Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can’t wake up.

Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.