This dullness of vision regarding the importance of the general welfare to the individual is the measure of the failure of our schools and churches to teach the spiritual significance of genuine democracy.

Progress is measured by richness and intensity of experience - by a wider and deeper apprehension of the significance and scope of human existence.

We are biological creatures. We are born we live we die. There is no transcendent purpose to existence. At best we are creatures of reason and by using reason we can cure ourselves of emotional excess. Purged of both hope and fear we find courage in the face of helplessness insignificance and uncertainty.

What a man does for pay is of little significance. What he is as a sensitive instrument responsive to the world's beauty is everything!

The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed and the truly new is criticized with aversion.

To me photography is the simultaneous recognition in a fraction of a second of the significance of an event.

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things but their inward significance.