Who said “Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the…”?

“Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.”

“We do not look in great cities for our best morality.”

“The city is not a concrete jungle. It is a human zoo.”

“No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.”

“The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.”

“Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.”

“Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.”

“For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.”

“He [Cézanne] reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks: there's another dog.”

“The great renewal of the world will perhaps consist in this, that man and maid, freed of all false feelings and reluctances, will seek each other not as opposites, but as brother and sister, as neighbors, and will come together as human beings.”

“Painting is something that takes place among the colors, and one has to leave them alone completely, so that they can settle the matter among themselves. Their intercourse: this is the whole of painting. Whoever meddles, arranges, injects his human deliberation, his wit, his advocacy, his intellectual agility in any way, is already disturbing and clouding their activity.”