Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.
Life is a first draft... with NO rewrite.
There is nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school.
The hand of the painter is incurably mechanical: his technique is incurably artificial... The camera... is so utterly unmechanical.
Man is the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.
A true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art.