In a sick world, it is the first duty of the artist to get well.

Talk about it only enough to do it. Dream about it only enough to feel it. Think about it only enough to understand it. Contemplate it only enough to be it.

Men are apt to idolize or fear that which they cannot understand, especially if it be a woman.

Whats beauty anyway but ugliness if it hurts you?

We do not posses imagination enough to sense what we are missing.

Most novices picture themselves as masters - and are content with the picture. This is why there are so few masters.

The only way to seek God is to seek God first. Deny the nayward, affirm the yeaward, be true to those stirrings and motions which He starts in us, refuse priority to all else, and be faithful to the sacred.