“The task of the artist at any time is uncompromisingly simple — to discover what has not yet been done, and to do it.”
“Any artist who has ever created something worthwhile has done so by staying true to himself. You can't do it any other way.”
“What time has ever been a simple time for those who are living it?”
“The simple fact that something has not been done, is no proof that it cannot be.”
“When it is said that it was done to please a woman, there ought perhaps to be enough to explain anything; for what a man will not do to please a woman is yet to be discovered.”
“High technology has done us one great service: It has retaught us the delight of performing simple and primordial tasks - chopping wood, building a fire, drawing water from a spring”