The technique of infamy is to start two lies at once and get people arguing heatedly over which is the truth.

The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.

If a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.

Poetry is about as much a 'criticism of life' as red-hot iron is a criticism of fire.

It would be about as easy for an American to become a Chinaman or a Hindoo as for him to acquire an Englishness or a Frenchness or a European-ness that is more than half skin deep.

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

The real meditation is ... the meditation on one's identity. Ah, voilà une chose!! You try it. You try finding out why you're you and not somebody else. And who in the blazes are you anyhow? Ah, voilà une chose!