We take our bearings, daily, from others. To be sane is, to a great extent, to be sociable.

Professionalism in art has this difficulty: To be professional is to be dependable, to be dependable is to be predictable, and predictability is esthetically boring - an anti-virtue in a field where we hope to be astonished and startled and at some deep level refreshed.

My only duty was to describe reality as it had come to me-to give the mundane its beautiful due.

Critics are like pigs at the pastry cart.

Revolution is just one crowd taking power from another.

I must go to Nature disarmed of perspective and stretch myself like a large transparent canvas upon her in the hope that, my submission being perfect, the imprint of a beautiful and useful truth would be taken.

The difficulty with humorists is that they will mix what they believe with what they don't; whichever seems likelier to win an effect.