To be at peace with self, to find company and nourishment in self-this would be the test of the free and productive psyche.

It's never what you say, but how you make it sound sincere.

Money is not an aphrodisiac: the desire it may kindle in the female eye is more for the cash than the carrier.

Artists never make wars. They are too busy making life out of the matter of their visions.

The process of maturing is an art to be learned, an effort to be sustained.

A seventeenth-century painting can be "modern" because the living eye finds it fresh and new. A "modern" painting can be outdated because it was a product of the moment and not of time.

Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist if at the same time she manages to be a good wife, a good mother, good-looking, good-tempered, well-dressed, well-groomed, and unaggressive.