“It might be said of Miss [Djuna] Barnes, [T.S. Eliot] wrote, who is incontestably one of the most original writers of our time, that never has so much genius been combined with so little talent.”

“As George Russell defined a literary movement: Five or six men who live in the same town and hate each other.”

“Gertrudes remedy for her mood swings was to print up hundreds of black-bordered calling cards embossed with the single word Woe, which she handed out gaily declaring, Woe is me.”

“There is only one thing left for you to do, John Sloan advised one artist. Pull off your socks and try with your feet.”

“[I]t was [Barnett] Newman who made the famously wry remark, Aesthetics is for the artist as ornithology is for the birds,”

“There is only one thing left for you to do,” John Sloan advised one artist. “Pull off your socks and try with your feet.”

“It might be said of Miss [Djuna] Barnes, [T.S. Eliot] wrote, who is incontestably one of the most original writers of our time, that never has so much genius been combined with so little talent.”

“Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.”

“Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.”

“There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.”

“Hide not your talents, they for use were made,What's a sundial in the shade?”

“The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it. ”

“Talent is extremely common. What is rare is the willingness to endure the life of the writer.”