“It took the Metropolitan Museum of Art nearly 50 years to wake up to Pablo Picasso. It didn't own one of his paintings until 1946, when Gertrude Stein bequeathed that indomitable quasi-Cubistic picture of herself - a portrait of the writer as a sumo Buddha - to the Met, principally because she disliked the Museum of Modern Art.”

“Politics is the art of controlling your environment.”

“Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.”

“Is art really the priesthood that demands the pure in heart who belong to it wholly?”

“Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.”

“What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is only related to objects, and not to individuals, or to life.”

“For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.”

“Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.”

“Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.”