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.

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

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.

I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron.... I should have been able to do better.

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.

A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.

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.