“Love is always being given where it is not required.”

“What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?”

“Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration.”

“Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life.”

“Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch.”

“One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.”

“To create art with all the passion in one's soul is to live art with all the beauty in one's heart.”

“art is risk made visible”

“Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.”