Genius is immediate, but talent takes time.

Isadore [Duncan], who had an un-American genius for art, for organizing love, maternity, politics and pedagogy on a great personal scale, had also an un-American genius for grandeur.

... people who don't want something are less likely to get it than people who do want something.

Women have invented nothing in all that, except the men who were born as male babies and grew up to be men big enough to be killed fighting.

She died with a knife in her hand in her kitchen, where she had cooked for fifty years, and the death was solemnly listed in the newspaper as that of an artist.

I act as a sponge. I soak it up and squeeze it out in ink every two weeks.

Genius is a talent only for living, those who possess it have little gift for dying.