The artist is always beginning.

Technique is the test of sincerity. If a thing isn't worth getting the technique to say, it is of inferior value.

The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation. Neither are they transmitted by book learning.

The book shd. be a ball of light in one's hand.

The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.

To say that a state cannot pursue its aims because there is no money, is like saying that an engineer cannot build roads, because there are no kilometers.

Artists are the antennae of the race, but the bullet-headed many will never learn to trust the great artists.