The what is so much more important than how.

People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf.

It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.

Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.

There is natural ignorance and there is artificial ignorance. I should say at the present moment the artificial ignorance is about eighty-five per cent.

The artist is always beginning.

The temple is holy because it is not for sale.