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.

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.

Though it might have its momentary alarms, paternity is not an exciting vocation.

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, for our consideration and application of these things, and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.

I have in my own fashion learned the lesson that life is effort, unremittingly repeated.

It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.

Money's a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.