“A nation which neglects the perceptions of its artists declines. After a while it ceases to act, and merely survives.There is probably no use in telling this to people who can't see it without being told.”

“The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in his creation.”

“The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.”

“Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing. The rest is mere sheep herding.”

“When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.”

“A great spirit has been amongst us, and a great artist is gone.”

“The critic who doesn't make a personal statement, in remeasurements he himself has made, is merely an unreliable critic. He is not a measurer but a repeater of other men's results. KRINO, to pick out for oneself, to choose. That's what the word means.”