Artists are the antennae of the race.

I could I trust starve like a gentleman. It's listed as part of the poetic training, you know.

I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.

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

Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.

The secret of popular writing is never to put more on a given page than the common reader can lap off it with no strain whatsoever on his habitually slack attention.

The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.