Everyone should have the opportunity of not being over-influenced.

Vagueness is at times an indication of nearness to a perfect truth.

There can be nothing exclusive about substantial art. It comes directly out of the heart of the experience of life and thinking about life and living life.

The possibilities of percussion sounds, I believe, have never been fully realized

Most of the forward movements of life in general ... have been the work of essentially religiously-minded people.

If a poet knows more about a horse than he does about heaven, he might better stick to the horse, and some day the horse may carry him into heaven.

You cannot set art off in a corner and hope for it to have vitality, reality, and substance.