What A Man Is Ashamed Of Is

The Value Of History. ..is That It Teaches Us What Man Has Done And Thus What Man Is.

The Sociability Of Artists Is A Paradoxical And Precarious Thing, And Ceases The Instant They Begin Their Actual Artistic Work.

The History Of Thought, And Therefore All History, Is The Re-enactment Of Past Thought In The Historian's Own Mind.

As A Child Growing Up Among Artists I Learned To Think Of A Picture Not As A Finished Product Exposed For The Admiration Of The Virtuosi, But As The Visible Record, Lying About The House, Of An Attempt To Solve A Definite Problem In Painting.

The Artist Must Prophesy Not In The Sense That He Foretells Things To Come, But In The Sense That He Tells His Audience, At The Risk Of Their Displeasure, The Secrets Of Their Own Hearts