Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.

God's creature is one. He makes man, not men. His true creature is unitary and infinite, revealing himself, indeed, in every finite form, but compromised by none.

Take the word for it of a man who has made his way inch by inch, and does not believe that we'll wake up to find our work done because we've lain all night a-dreaming of it; anything worth doing is devilish hard to do!

I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.

In art economy is always beauty.

We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.

Her reputation for reading a great deal hung about her like the cloudy envelope of a goddess in an epic.