there is art and there is official art, there always has been and there always will be.

it is all the question of identity. ... As long as the outside does not put a value on you it remains outside but when it does put a value on you then it gets inside or rather if the outside puts a value on you then all your inside gets to be outside.

An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.

there is art and there is official art, there always has been and there always will be.

I cannot write too much upon how necessary it is to be completely conservative that is particularly traditional in order to be free.

Human beings are interested in two things. They are interested in the Reality and interested in telling about it.

You will write if you will write without thinking of the result in terms of a result, but think of the writing in terms of discovery, which is to say that creation must take place between the pen and the paper, not before in a thought or afterwards in a recasting... It will come if it is there and if you will let it come.