Art cannot result from sophisticated, frivolous, or superficial effects.

It's an honor putting art above politics. Politics can be seductive in terms of things reductive to the soul.

I'm not interested in pop art.

Wit as an instrument of revenge is as infamous as art is as a means of sensual titillation.

In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.

Because most people are not sufficiently employed in themselves, they run about loose, hungering for employment, and satisfy themselves in various supererogatory occupations. The easiest of these occupations, which have all to do with making things already made, is the making of people: it is called the art of friendship.

An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.

Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.

Form your life humanly, and you have done enough: but you will never reach the height of art and the depth of science without something divine.

Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split the possibilities to make good building art.