Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure.

Without adventure civilization is in full decay

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.

Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.

The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervor, live for it, and if need be, die for it.

In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory