"The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with."

"I don't know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there's a good English phrase for it - cold war."

"A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader."

"The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world - no ideals."

"Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror."

"Man's sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God."

"To say to the painter that Nature is to be taken as she is, is to say to the player that he may sit on the piano."

"It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth - and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up, we will then begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had."