The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book.
It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
I have to keep working, not to arrive at finish, which arouses the admiration of fools. . . I must seek completion only for the pleasure of being truer and more knowing.
It's so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
With an apple I will astonish Paris.
For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.
See nature in terms of the cone, the cylinder, and the sphere.
The proper form of economy must be observed in building houses for each and every class.
So many songs are just a wink to the audience, but people take them seriously. 'My Humps?' C'mon!
Don't for a moment believe He was killing the young; He was costuming angels.
Man is an historical animal, with a deep sense of his own past; and if he cannot integrate the past by a history explicit and true, he will integrate it by a history implicit and false.