Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?

Stay firmly in your path and dare; be wild two hours a day!

Seek art and abstraction in nature by dreaming in the presence of it.

And here in my isolation I can grow stronger. Poetry seems to come of itself, without effort, and I need only let myself dream a little while painting to suggest it.

The missionary is no longer a man, a conscience. He is a corpse, in the hands of a confraternity, without family, without love, without any of the sentiments that are dear to us. Emasculated, in a sense, by his vow of chastity, he offers us the distressing spectacle of a man deformed and impotent or engaged in a stupid and useless struggle with the sacred needs of the flesh, a struggle which, seven times out of ten, leads him to sodomy, the gallows, or prison.

The single most powerful tool for winning a negotiation is the ability to get up and walk away from the table without a deal

Go on working, freely and furiously, you will make progress and sooner or later your worth will be recognised, if you have any.