One should not become an artist because he can, but because he must. It is only for those who would be miserable without it.
It's freezing up here. What did you use to keep warm?" "Indignation," said Michelangelo. "Best fuel I know. Never burns out.
Reading is a stouthearted activity, disporting courage, keenness, stick-to-it-ness.
Loneliness is a kind of prison. [Vincent Van Gogh]
Religion will never show the way.
An artist without ideas is a mendicant; barren, he goes begging among the hours.