Men live in glad obedience to the masters they believe in, or they live in a frictional opposition to the master they wish to undermine.

The word arse is as much god as the word face. It must be so, otherwise you cut off your god at the waist.

We ought to dance with rapture that we should be alive and in the flesh, and part of the living, incarnate cosmos.

Sentimentalism is the working off on yourself of feelings you haven't really got.

The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser one.

When van Gogh paints sunflowers, he reveals, or achieves, the vivid relation between himself, as man, and the sunflower, as sunflower, at that quick moment of time. His painting does not represent the sunflower itself. We shall never know what the sunflower itself is. And the camera will visualize the sunflower far more perfectly than van Gogh can.

California is a queer place in a way, it has turned its back on the world, and looks into the void Pacific. It is absolutely selfish, very empty, but not false, and at least, not full of false effort.