This joy you feel is life.

It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.

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

I love my love with a b because she is peculiar.

I manage to think twice about everything / Why will they like me as they do / Or not as they do / Why will they praise me as they do / Or praise me not not as they do.

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.

Argument is to me the air I breathe.