The man who is forever disturbed about the condition of humanity either has no problems of his own or has refused to face them..

It's the pleasure of picking up the brush and seeing what happens..

You can look at things all your life and not see them really. This ‘seeing’ is, in a way, a ‘not seeing,’ if you follow me. It is more of a search f….

If any man dared to translate all that is in his heart, to put down what is really his experience, what is truly his truth, I think then the world wo….

Each man has his own way of being himself and of saying it so ultimately that he can't be denied..

'Life', said Emerson, "consists in what a man is thinking all day." If that be so, then my life is nothing but a big intestine..

All my good reading, you might say, was done in the toilet. There are passages in Ulysses which can be read only in the toilet - if one wants to extr….

This is not a book in the ordinary sense of the word. No, this is a prolonged insult, a gob of spit in the face of art, a kick in the pants to God, M….

I had learned to harness ignorance with presumption. I was ready to become an unacknowledged watercolorist..

For one crime which is expiated in prison ten thousand are committed thoughtlessly by those who condemn..

The only difference between the Adamic man and the man of today is that the one was born to Paradise and the other has to create it..

I used to think a bird couldn't fly if its wings got wet..

The learning we received only tended to obscure our vision. From the day we went to school we learned nothing; on the contrary, we were made obtuse, ….

There is the happiness which comes from creative effort. The joy of dreaming, creating, building, whether in painting a picture, writing an epic, sin….

Words are loneliness..

When you can't create you can work.

We must get going. Tomorrow, tomorrow..

To sing you must first open your mouth. You must have a pair of lungs, and a little knowledge of music. It is not necessary to have an accordion, or ….

Part of the act of creating is in discovering your own kind. They are everywhere. But don't look for them in the wrong places..

Think only what is right there, what is right under your nose to do. It's such a simple thing - that's why people can't do it..

The American white man (not to speak of the Indian, the Negro, the Mexican) hasn't a ghost of a chance. If he has any talent he's doomed to have it c….