“Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change.”

“Early in my career...I had to choose between an honest arrogance and a hypercritical humility... I deliberately choose an honest arrogance, and I've never been sorry.”

“1. An honest ego in a healthy body2. An eye to see nature3. A heart to feel nature4. Courage to follow nature5. A sense of proportion (humor)6. Appreciation of work as idea and idea as work7. Fertility of imagination8. Capacity for faith and rebellion9. Disregard for commonplace (inorganic) elegance10. Instinctive cooperation”

“The longer that I live the more beautiful life becomes.”

“give me the luxuries of life and I will gladly do without the necessities.”

“Now a work of art is a work of nature, but it is a work of human nature. It is a work of the mind: and it's a work of the mind in circumstances for an occasion which, to which, for which, and which it may be supremely natural and simple and effective."The Nature of Art" December 19, 1954”

“The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.”