It is not accidental that our greatest art is intimate and not monumental.

Precisely the ultimate and most sublime values have retreated from public life either into the transcendental realm of mystic life or into the brotherliness of direct and personal human relations.

One cannot with impunity try to transfer this task entirely to mechanical assistants if one wishes to figure something, even though the final result is often small indeed.

When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul

There is no art without Eros.

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.