“Art is what we do and culture is what they do to us.”

“What is art if not a concentrated and impassioned effort to make something with the little we have, the little we see?”

“The truth is that as soon as we are no longer obliged to earn our living, we no longer know what to do with our life and recklessly squander it.”

“The point of art is not to give you what you already feel comfortable with; that’s reporting, not art, that TV, not art, that’s magaziney art, not art. Art gives you so personal an interpretation that it compels you to say, “This here is more real than what I know is really out there.”

“Do not do what someone else could do as well as you. Do not say, do not write what someone else could say, could write as well as you. Care for nothing in yourself but what you feel exists nowhere else. And, out of yourself create, impatiently or patiently, the most irreplaceable of beings.”

“What you feel doesn’t matter in the end; it’s what you do that makes you brave.”

“What we do not make conscious emerges later as fate.”