The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.

I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.

It doesn't matter which leg of your table you make first, so long as the table has four legs and will stand up solidly when you have finished it.

Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.

Artists are the antennae of the race.

A little light, like a rushlight / to lead back to splendour.

A crowd pagan as ever imperial Rome was, eager, careless, with an animal vigour unlike that of any European crowd that I have ever looked at.