Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process.

We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs.

Ruthless, greedy, tyrannical, disreputable they have had one principle worth all the rest, the principle of delight!

All great civilizations, in their early stages, are based on success in war

Children who are treated as if they are uneducable almost invariably become uneducable

No nude, however abstract, should fail to arouse in the spectator some vestige of erotic feeling, even if it be only the faintest shadow - and if it does not do so it is bad art and false morals