The object of art is not to make salable pictures. It is to save yourself.

All good New Orleanians go to look at the Mississippi at least once a day. At night it is like creeping into a dark bedroom to look at a sleeping child--something of that sort--gives you the same warm nice feeling, I mean.

The whole object of education is...to develop the mind. The mind should be a thing that works.

Everyone in the world is Christ and they are all crucified.

Realism, in so far as the word means reality to life, is always bad art.

Work accomplished means little. It is in the past. What we all want is the glorious and living present.

What is to be got at to make the air sweet, the ground good under the feet, can only be got at by failure, trial, again and again and again failure.