Picasso once remarked I do not care who it is that has or does influence me as long as it is not myself.

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.

... anybody is as their land and air is. Anybody is as the sky is low or high, the air heavy or clear and anybody is as there is wind or no wind there. It is that which makes them and the arts they make and the work they do and the way they eat and the way they drink and the way they learn and everything.

I was somewhat drunk with what I had done. And I am always one to prefer being sober.

Just before she died she asked, What is the answer? No answer came. She laughed and said, In that case, what is the question? Then she died.

Supposing everyone lived at one time what would they say. They would observe that stringing string beans is universal.

One never discusses anything with anybody who can understand one discusses things with people who cannot understand.