"Sane judgment abhors nothing so much as a picture perpetrated with no technical knowledge, although with plenty of care and diligence. Now the sole reason why painters of this sort are not aware of their own error is that they have not learnt Geometry, without which no one can either be or become an absolute artist; but the blame for this should be laid upon their masters, who are themselves ignorant of this art."

"Hitler, no doubt, will soon disappear, but only at the expense of strengthening Stalin, the Anglo-American millionaires and all sorts of petty fuhrers of the type of de Gaulle. All the national moveme…"

"A Latino-American undergraduate who is a student of Shakespeare is not "culturally appropriating" anyone’s white-European legacy, but instead seeking transcendence of ideas and a common humanity. Asia…"

"The skills I had learned for prose didn’t work in film. Those telling details, they’re completely different. Or the fact of these inner monologues in which you can write a whole book. Whereas prose is…"

"Nothing depict better the poverty of human nature than to see men, placed at the head of a State, and who should, so to speak, embody the law, be concerned only with their own prestige and their own p…"