Artistic temperament is like a king with vigor and unlimited opportunity. You shake the structure to pieces by playing with it.

Art isn't meaningless... It is in itself. It isn't in that it tries to make life less so.

Talent doesn't starve any more. Even art gets enough to eat these days. Artists draw your magazine covers, write your advertisements, hash out rag-time for your theatres. By the great commercializing of printing you've found a harmless, polite occupation for every genius who might have carved his own niche. But beware the artist who's an intellectual also.

I could never be a Communist. I could never be regimented. I could never be told what to write.

Art invariably grows out of a period when, in general, the artist admires his own nation and wants to win its approval.

Ernest [Hemmingway] was always ready to lend a helping hand to the one on the rung above him.

To most women art is a form of scandal.

Beware the artist who's an intellectual also. The artist who doesn't fit.

Having once found the intensity of art, nothing else that can happen in life can ever again seem as important as the creative process.