Avant tout, les artistes sont des hommes qui veulent devenir inhumains. Aboveall, artists aremenwhowanttobecome inhuman.

-Kostrowitzki
  Les Peintres cubistes; Me¤  ditations esthe¤  tiques,'Sur la peinture,1'.

I do not like subversion or disloyalty in any form and if I had ever seen any I would have considered it my duty to have reported it to the proper authorities.But to hurt innocent people whom I knew many years ago in order to save myself is to me inhuman and indecent and dishonorable.

-Hellman, Lillian Florence
  Letter to  John S  Wood,19 May, on being asked to give information for the McCarthy trials. Collected in US Congress Committee Hearing on Un- American  Activities (1952), pt.8.

My theme is always humanistic. Life today is junglelike†it is complex, it is inhuman in its materialism.

-Wilson, SirAngus FrankJohnstone
  Letter to David Farrer, his publisher, Jul. Quoted in Margaret Drabble AngusWilsonöA Biography (1995).