The hand of the painter is incurably mechanical: his technique is incurably artificial... The camera... is so utterly unmechanical.

The notion that inspiration is something that happened thousands of years ago, and was then finished and done with. . . the theory that God retired from business at that period and has not been heard from since, is as silly as it is blasphemous.

A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.

Marriage is to me apostasy, profanation of the sanctuary of my soul, violation of my manhood, sale of my birthright, shameful surrender, ignominious capitulation, acceptance of defeat.

Liberty is the breath of life to nations.

Spend all you have before you die, and do not outlive yourself.