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.

It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral.

The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them.

Nobody can have the soul of me. My mother has had, and nobody can have it again. Nobody can come into my very self again, and breathe me like an atmosphere.

And every true artist is the salvation of every other. But only artists produce for each other the world that is fit to live in.

A book lives as long as it is unfathomed.

Obscenity only comes in when the mind despises and fears the body, and the body hates and resists the mind.