The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

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

Religion I have defined as "Another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art".

Art is to be admired rather than explained. The jargon of these sculptors is beyond me. I do not precisely know why I admire a green granite, female, apparently pregnant monster with one eye going around a square corner.

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.

The artist is always beginning.

I once saw a small child go to an electric light switch as say, Mamma, can I open the light? She was using the age-old language of exploration, the language of art.