If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well one has at the same time insight into and understanding of many things.
I put my heart and my soul into my work and have lost my mind in the process.
Poetry surrounds us everywhere but putting it on paper is alas not so easy...
It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one...
When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go...
An artist needn't be a clergyman or a churchwarden but he certainly must...
If boyhood and youth are but vanity must it not be our ambition to become men?
I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.
The more I think about it the more I realize there is nothing more artistic...
To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a...
No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every...
It's plain hokum. If you can't convince 'em confuse 'em. It's an old...
A lot of people would be embarrassed to admit that they were on 'Barney' but...
I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
October is a fine and dangerous season in America. a wonderful time to begin...
I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.
No story is the same to us after a lapse of time or rather we who read it are...
I'm being treated like a sex object cried the lady. No matter. I will take...
If I have to move up in a building I choose the elevator over the escalator....