“We are troubled by having two selves, the inner and the outer. The outer one is rather dull and lets great things go by.”

“In every human being there is the artist, and whatever his activity, he has an equal chance with any to express the result of his growth and his contact with life. I don't believe any real artist c...”

“The end will be what it will be. The object is intense living, fulfillment; the great happiness in creation.”

“I have no sympathy with the belief that art is the restricted province of those who paint, sculpt, make music and verse. I hope we will come to an understanding that the material used is only incid...”

“Don't worry about your originality. You couldn't get rid of it even if you wanted to. It will stick with you and show up for better or worse in spite of all you or anyone else can do.”

“The object isn't to make art, it's to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable.”

“I think that when you are famous every weakness is exaggerated.”

“My strength and my weakness are twins in the same womb.”

“Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.”