it is as unseeing to ask what is the use of poetry as it would be to ask what is the use of religion.

it is as unseeing to ask what is the use of poetry as it would be to ask what is the use of religion.

I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art.

Picasso was a delightful, kindly, friendly, simple little man. When I met him he was extremely excited and overjoyed that his mother-in-law had just died, and he was looking forward to the funeral.

Eccentricity is not, as some would believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd.

I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of goldfish.

I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... but I am too busy thinking about myself.