All boundaries down, freedom was not only the recognition of necessity, it was the recognition of possibility. - Ralph Ellison

God is love, I said, but art's the possibility of forms, and shadows are the source of identity.

The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity.

At best Americans give but a limited attention to history. Too much happens too rapidly, and before we can evaluate it, or exhaust its meaning or pleasure, there is something new to concern us. Ours is the tempo of the motion picture, not that of the still camera, and we waste experience as we wasted the forest.