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An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose.
Of all actions of a man's life, his marriage does least concern other people, yet of all actions of our life tis most meddled with by other people.
Admittedly, it is really our duty, as artists, to hold up a mirror to our own era; but, on the other hand, these works have lives of their own, and they're still alive today.
Oh literature, oh the glorious Art, how it preys upon the marrow in our bones. It scoops the stuffing out of us, and chucks us aside. Alas!
The artist is something of an outsider in America. I have always felt that America does not value its artists, certainly not in the sense that the Europeans do.
History speaks to artists. It changes the artist's thinking and is constantly reshaping it into different and unexpected images.
There is a destiny which makes us brothers; none goes his way alone. All that we send into the lives of others comes back into our own.
In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us.
Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them.
