The picture must all come out of the artist's inside, awareness of forms and figures... It is more than memory. It is the image as it lives in the consciousness, alive like a vision, but unknown.

I do esteem individual liberty above everything. What is a nation for, but to secure the maximum liberty to every individual?

I love you, rotten, Delicious rottenness. ...wonderful are the hellish experiences, Orphic, delicate Dionysos of the Underworld.

One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it... and the journey is always towards the other soul.

I should think the American admiration of five-minute tourists has done more to kill the sacredness of old European beauty and aspiration than multitudes of bombs would have done.

So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness.

Marriage is the clue to human life, but there is no marriage apart from the wheeling sun and the nodding earth, from the strayingof the planets and the magnificence of the fixed stars.