The ideal form for a poem, essay, or fiction, is that which the ideal writer would evolve spontaneously. One in whom the powers of expression fully r….

For aging is an art. The years between its first intimations and the time of the ultimate letting go of all earthly things can-if the readiness and r….

Nothing chastens a planner more than the knowledge that he will have to carry out the plan..

The only success worth one's powder was success in the line of one's idiosyncrasy... what was talent but the art of being completely whatever one hap….

Thought is borne of failure..

The deepest quality of a work of art will always be the quality of the mind of the producer...No good novel will ever proceed from a superficial mind..

It's important to debunk the myths of Africa being this benighted continent civilized only when white people arrived. In fact, Africans had been crea….

The writer's only real task: to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art.

I think a lot of becoming an entrepreneur is something which people have to learn just from getting out there and giving it a go, and having to learn….

Ah, but art and trouble go hand in hand. If you cannot be troubled to create art from your heart, then your art will never trouble the heart of other….

every human activity, whether it be love, philosophy, art, or revolution, is carried on with a special intensity in Paris..

Art does not die because there is no more art. It dies because there is too much..

The Point of Power Is in the Present..

And nobody had told them that they were short on time..

I cannot see that art is anything less than a way of making joys perpetual..

The future did not arrive..

The greatest art in life is to believe in Christ. That art is learned only in the Holy Spirit's school..

Art is like an avalanche being poured down your throat. You know it's going to crack, eventually it's going to go out of fashion. I wish there was mu….

I think a lot of people are involved in art because of the fashion of art and the conversation. It gives them a certain sophistication, something to ….

You learn about yourself when you're collecting art. You learn what you're capable of. After all, we're not speaking about pennies-we're speaking abo….

The art world, of all worlds, has room for everyone..