“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.”

“The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.”

“The serious artist must be as open as nature. Nature does not give all of herself in a paragraph. She is rugged and not set apart into discreet categories.”

“A great spirit has been amongst us, and a great artist is gone.”

“A nation which neglects the perceptions of its artists declines. After a while it ceases to act, and merely survives.There is probably no use in telling this to people who can't see it without being told.”

“Poetry is a sort of inspired mathematics, which gives us equations, not for abstract figures, triangles, squares, and the like, but for the human emotions. If one has a mind which inclines to magic rather than science, one will prefer to speak of these equations as spells or incantations; it sounds more arcane, mysterious, recondite.”

“A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.”