“It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, and I know of no substitute for the force and beauty of it's process.”
“I am interested in art as a means of living a life; not as a means of making a living.”
“what makes a work of fiction safe from larvae and rust is not its social importance but its art, only its art”
“I find no importance in showing others that I am happy; it's not important to me that they know or think that I am happy but what is important to me is that I am happy. I am interested in being happy, not in making others think or know that I am.”
“Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.”
“But art is not simply works of art; it is the spirit that knows Beauty, that has music in its being and the color of sunsets in its headkerchiefs; that can dance on a flaming world and make the world dance, too.”