"It had been a long dull evening, with only the thought of leaving the party early to look forward to."

"We speak of concrete and not abstract painting because nothing is more concrete, more real than a line, a colour, a surface."

"No work which is destined to become a classic can look like the classics which have preceded it. In art, as in biology, there is heredity but no identity with the ascendants. Painters inherit characte…"

"Until writing was invented, man lived in acoustic space: boundless, directionless, horizonless, in the dark of the mind, in the world of emotion, by primordial intuition, terror. Speech is a social ch…"

"I am of the opinion that all who can should vote for the most intelligent, honest, and conscientious men eligible to office, irrespective of former party opinions, who will endeavour to make the new c…"