“It often seems to me that art conceals the artist far more completely than it ever reveals him.”

“I can not help feeling that it is a mistake to think that the passion one feels in creation is ever really shown in the work one creates. Art is always more abstract than we fancy. Form and color tell us of form and color-that is all. It often seems to me that art conceals the artist more completely than it ever reveals hi m”

“To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim.”

“The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim.”

“Call me Mac," he said.Mackadocious is more like it."For the next month, I will be your writing instructor..." Lip Macking Good. "It was Alfred, Lord Tennyson, who said, 'Words, like Nature, half reveal and half conceal the Soul within...'" Big Mac Attack."Here, in the next five weeks, I hope you do more revealing than concealing..."Oh, I'll reveal more than that if you want me to, Mac Daddy.”

“Indeed. I have often thought that when a man selects one word over another he often reveals far more of himself than he intended.”