"We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from ..." — Jose Ortega y Gasset

To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.

There is but one way left to save a classic; to give up revering him and use him for our own salvation.

The essence of man is, discontent, divine discontent; a sort of love without a beloved, the ache we feel in a member we no longer have.

Being an artist means ceasing to take seriously that very serious person we are when we are not an artist.