“Human art, Mahnmut knew, simply transcended human beings.”
“But secretly I knew I had been transformed, moved by the revalation that human beings create art, that to be an artist was to see what others could not.”
“Freedom is the realization that it is sufficient to simply be a human being.”
“Art was art, humans were humans, but art was best when it was human.”
“What passes for hip cynical transcendence of sentiment is really some kind of fear of being really human, since to be really human [...] is probably to be unavoidably sentimental and naïve and goo-prone and generally pathetic.”
“There is something simply beautiful and simply innocent, in being human. It is just so innocent and beautiful. I love it.”