Whatever the heart desires, it purchases at the cost of soul

The effective in art is what rapes the emotions of your audience without nourishing its values.

Our inventions mirror our secret wishes.

Art—the meaning of the pattern of our common actions in reality. The cloth-of-gold that hides behind the sackcloth of reality, forced out by the pain of human memory.

The heaviest impact of the work of art is in the guts. Art does not reason. It manhandles you and changes you.

They flower spontaneously out of the demands of our natures - and the best of them lead us not only outward in space, but inward as well.

Frost in January minus 20 for a week. Dead birds frozen on the branch—they fall with the first thaw like ripe fruit—death-ripened. We shall all end like them—just a stain in the snow.