Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.

The jargon of sculptors is beyond me. I do not know precisely why I admire a green granite female, apparently pregnant monster with one eye going around a square corner.

The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.

If a patron buys from an artist who needs money, the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.

Gloom and solemnity are entirely out of place in even the most rigorous study of an art originally intended to make glad the heart of man.

Technique is the test of sincerity. If a thing isn't worth getting the technique to say, it is of inferior value.