There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.

The subject matter of art is life, life as it actually is; but the function of art is to make life better.

The minute you or anybody else knows what you are you are not it, you are what you or anybody else knows you are and as everything in living is made up of finding out what you are it is extraordinarily difficult really not to know what you are and yet to be that thing.

Affectations can be dangerous.

I murmured to Picasso that I liked his portrait of Gertrude Stein. Yes, he said, everybody said that she does not look like it, but that does not make any difference, she will, he said.

As there was never any question there was never any answer.

You look ridiculous if you dance You look ridiculous if you don't dance So you might as well dance.