A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.

Almost any fool can paint an academy picture, and any imbecile can shoot off a Kodak.

The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.

I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has to clear up in his own head sometime or other, probably antecedent to writing; of no value unless it come to fruit in the created work later.

The phase of the usury system which we are trying to analyze is more or less Patterson's perception that the Bank of England could have benefit of all the interest on all the money that it creates out of nothing. ... Now the American citizen can, of course, appeal to his constitution, which states that Congress shall have power to coin money or regulate the value thereof and of foreign coin. Such appeal is perhaps quixotic.

The intellect is a very nice whirligig toy, but how people take it seriously is more than I can understand.

The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public.