I am not a neurotic!""You're trembling with nerves and sensibility—""Of course I am, I'm an artist!

When dealing with a married couple one can never be neutral. The hot magnetic power of each one's view of the other makes the spectator sway.

Only take someone's hand in a certain way, even look into their eyes in a certain way, and the world is changed forever.

That art gives charm to terrible things is perhaps its glory, perhaps its curse. Art is a doom.

You're such an agonizer, Bradley. You romanticize art. You're a masochist about it, you want to suffer, you want to feel that your inability to create is continuously significant.

Give yourself to these great works of art. They suffice for a lifetime.

Art is not cosy and it is not mocked. Art tells the only truth that ultimately matters. It is the light by which human things can be mended. And after art there is, let me assure you all, nothing.

All art deals with the absurd and aims at the simple. Good art speaks truth, indeed is truth, perhaps the only truth.

Only art explains, and that cannot itself be explained.