I have lived among enough painters and around studios to have had all the theories - and how contradictory they are - rammed down my throat. A man has to have a gizzard like an ostrich to digest all the brass-tacks and wire nails of modern art theories.

An artist is only an ordinary man with a greater potentiality--same stuff, same make up, only more force. And the strong driving force usually finds his weak spot, and he goes cranked, or goes under.

Satire exists for the purpose of killing the social being [for the sake of] the true individual, the real human being.

An artist is only an ordinary man with a greater potentiality.

There is a sixth sense, the natural religious sense, the sense of wonder.

A museum is not a first-hand contact: it is an illustrated lecture. And what one wants is the actual vital touch.

Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description.