The first hope of a painter who feels hopeful about painting is the hope that the painting will move, that it will live outside its frame.

Silent gratitude isn't very much to anyone.

it is a peaceful thing to be one succeeding.

Men cannot count, they do not know that two and two make four if women do not tell them so.

We are always the same age inside.

Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.

The United States is just now the oldest country in the world, there always is an oldest country and she is it, it is she who is the mother of the twentieth century civilization. She began to feel herself as it just after the Civil War. And so it is a country the right age to have been born in and the wrong age to live in.