The true aspiration of art should be to reduce the need for it. It is not that we should one day lose our devotion to the things that art addresses: beauty, depth of meaning, good relationships, the appreciation of nature, recognition of the shortness of life, empathy, compassion, and so on. Rather, having imbibed the ideals that art displays, we should fight to attain in reality the things art merely symbolises, however graciously and intently. The ultimate goal of the art lover should be to build a world where works of art have become a little less necessary

It is this final goal - freedom - toward which all the world's history has been working. It is this goal to which all the sacrifices have been brought upon the broad altar of the earth in the long flow of time.

You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action.

I hope you’ll understand that I am not quoting those great words lightly. I do mean it. Knowledge sets us free, art sets us free. A great library is freedom.

Freedom is one of the deepest and noblest aspirations of the human spirit.

... the idea that the Art Lover is a freedom fighter for a better world because he thinks, and his exploration of the past gives him a perspective from which to form his own opinions and to act.

The free expression of the hopes and aspirations of a people is the greatest and only safety in a sane society.

The goal of art isn’t to attain perfection. The goal is to share who we are. And how we see the world.

Genuine art . . . does not have as its object a mere transitory game. Its serious purpose is not merely to translate the human being into a momentary dream of freedom, but actually to MAKE him free.

Freedom is valued in a culture that wants to encourage dissent and to stimulate originality and independence. It belongs to a society which is open to change, and which esteems the agent of change, the individual, above its own peace of mind.

The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important aims of philosophy.

Por um mundo onde sejamos socialmente iguais, humanamente diferentes e totalmente livres.

He realised, more vividly than ever before, that art had two constant, two unending preoccupations: it is always meditating upon death and it is always thereby creating life.

The goal of creating an environment of freedom is that as an individual, you actually live your life according to your own choosing rather than compulsion.