The Act Of Philosophizing Involves The Character

It Is Necessary That The Object That The Artist Is Shaping, Whether It Be A Vase Of Clay Or A Fishing Boat, Be Significant Of Something Other Than Itself. This Object Must Be A Sign As Well As An Object; A Meaning Must Animate It, And Make It Say More Than It Is.

Christianity Taught Men That Love Is Worth More Than Intelligence.

Authority And Power Are Two Different Things: Power Is The Force By Means Of Which You Can Oblige Others To Obey You. Authority Is The Right To Direct And Command, To Be Listened To Or Obeyed By Others. Authority Requests Power. Power Without Authority Is Tyranny.

Art Is A Creative Effort Of Which The Wellsprings Lie In The Spirit, And Which Brings Us At Once The Most Intimate Self Of The Artist And The Secret Concurrences Which He Has Perceived In Things By Means Of A Vision Or Intuition All His Own, And Not To Be Expressed In Ideas And In Words-expressible Only In The Work Of Art.

For To Love Is To Give What One Is, His Very Being, In The Most Absolute, The Most Brazenly Metaphysical, The Least Phenomenalizable Sense Of This Word.