Every day you play with the light of the universe.
Through the pursuit of beauty we shape the world as a home, and in doing so we both amplify our joys and find consolation for our sorrows.
Beauty is vanishing from our world because we live as though it does not matter.
Freedom can reside only in a point of view, a way of looking upon the system of necessity. Surely this is the one freedom that we may attain to: not to be released from physical reality, but to understand reality and ourselves as part of it, and so be reconciled to what we are.
Creativity is not enough. . . the skill of the true artist is to show the real in the light of the ideal and so transfigure it.
The relation of the soul to the body is like that of a house to its bricks. The soul is a principle of organisation, which governs the flesh and endows it with meaning. It is no more separable from the flesh than is the house from its bricks, even if the soul may survive the gradual replacement of every bodily part.
Marriage does not exist for the benefit of the present generation but for the benefit of the next
The Americans who went to Europe to die are a unique breed. . . . (They) crossed the seas to a foreign land to fight for a cause which they did not pretend was peculiarly their own, which they knew was the cause of humanity and mankind. These Americans gave the greatest of all gifts, the gift of life and the gift of spirit.
We can be eaten by techniques and forget what we have inside of us.
We must control the politics and the politicians of our community. They must no longer take orders from outside forces. We will organize, and sweep out of office all Negro politicians who are puppets for the outside forces.
Some models who aren't the most beautiful end up becoming the greatest of all time.