It is better to present one image in a lifetime than to produce voluminous work. Image...that which presents an intellectual and emotional complex in an instant of time.
Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.
The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in his creation.
A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.
Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book, until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.