The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.
If we sip the wine, we find dreams coming upon us out of the imminent night.
Sex is just another form of talk, where you act the words instead of saying them.
Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.
How sure I feel, how warm and strong and happy For the future! How sure the future is within me; I am like a seed with a perfect flower enclosed...
The picture must all come out of the artist’s inside. It is the image that lives in the consciousness, alive like a vision, but unknown.
No absolute is going to make the lion lie down with the lamb: unless the lamb is inside.
Men! The only animal in the world to fear.
To penetrate into Italy is like a most fascinating act of self-discovery-back, back down the old ways of time. Strange and wonderful chords awake in us, and vibrate again after many hundreds of years of complete forgetfulness.
For God’s sake, let us be men not monkeys minding machines or sitting with our tails curled while the machine amuses us, the radio or film or gramophone. Monkeys with a bland grin on our faces.
Freedom is a very great reality, but it means above all things, freedom from lies.
And what’s romance? Usually, a nice little tale where you have everything As You Like It, where rain never wets your jacket and gnats never bite your nose and it’s always daisy-time.
The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.
What is pornography to one man is the laughter of genius to another.
One doesn’t know, till one is a bit at odds with the world, how much one’s friends who believe in one rather generously, mean to one.
When we really want to go for something better, we shall smash the old. Until then, any sort of proposal, or making proposals, is no more than a tiresome game for self-important people.
Now go away then, and leave me alone. I don’t want any more of your meretricious persiflage.
Water is H2O, hydrogen two parts, oxygen one, but there is also a third thing, that makes it water and nobody knows what that is.
They lived freely among the students, they argued with the men over philosophical, sociological and artistic matters, they were just as good as the men themselves: only better, since they were women.
There is a sixth sense, the natural religious sense, the sense of wonder.