“Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny.”
“A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.”
“The modern artist, by nature and destiny, is always an individualist.”
“No true artist is possible without sorrow and suffering and renunciation.”
“Thackeray's a good writer and Flaubert is a great artist. Trollope is a good writer and Dickens is a great artist. Colette is a very good writer and Proust is a great artist. Katherine Anne Porter was an extremely good writer and Willa Cather was a great artist.”
“Not anyone can become a great artist, but a great artist can come from anywhere.”