“The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode.”
“Art is the most effective mode of communications that exists.”
“Literature is invention. Fiction is fiction. To call a story a true story is an insult to both truth and art.”
“Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.”
“After all, I believe that legends and myths are largely made of 'truth', and indeed present aspects of it that can only be received in this mode; and long ago certain truths and modes of this kind were discovered and must always reappear.”
“To discover the mode of life or of art whereby my spirit could express itself in unfettered freedom.”