A nation devoid of art and artists cannot have a full existence.

The nation has placed its faith in the precept that all laws should be inspired by actual needs here on earth as a basic fact of national life.

A nation which does not practice science, such a nation, one must admit has no place in the high road of civilization.

There are two Mustafa Kemals. One the flesh-and-blood Mustafa Kemal who now stands before you and who will pass away. The other is you, all of you here who wil…

Russia, France, Germany and China. They revere their writers. America is still a frontier country that almost shudders at the idea of creative expression.

I sometimes wondered what the use of any of the arts was. The best thing I could come up with was what I call the canary in the coal mine theory of the arts. T…

In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed - they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo Da Vinci and the Renaissanc…