I believe that the most important condition for faith is sensitivity to beauty.
To try to understand another human being, to grapple for his ultimate depths, that is the most dangerous of human endeavors.
Art's a staple. Like bread or wine or a warm coat in winter. Those who think it is a luxury have only a fragment of a mind. Man's spirit grows hungry for art in the same way his stomach growls for food.
His mind was like a soup dish, wide and shallow; it could hold a small amount of nearly anything, but the slightest jarring spilled the soup into somebody's lap
Do not call yourself old. A man is as old as the creative force within him.
It's freezing up here. What did you use to keep warm?" "Indignation," said Michelangelo. "Best fuel I know. Never burns out.
From the biography of Freud, by Irving Stone, said by Freud's fiance after he teased her for being sweet, "Beware of truly sweet people. They have will of iron.
Writing about why you write is a funny business, like scratching what doesn't itch. Impulses are mysterious, and explaining them must be done with mirrors, like certain cunning slight-of-hand routines.
The same eye cannot both look up to heaven and down to earth.
Earnestness is the best gift of mental power, and deficiency of heart is the cause of many men never becoming great.
You can't do God's work without suffering.