I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn't irascible.

Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.

What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.

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.

The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.

Until you know who has lent what to whom, you know nothing whatever of politics, you know nothing whatever of history, you know nothing of international wrangles.

The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public.