I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.

The great isn't something accidental; it must be willed.

I've never felt a desire (and I don't believe I ever shall) to bring the public to my work... a certain popularity seems to me the least desirable of things.

Admire as much as you can. Most people do not admire enough.

Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.

Ideas for work are coming to me in abundance...I'm going like a painting-locomotive.