It might be said of Miss [Djuna] Barnes, ” [T.S. Eliot] wrote, “who is incontestably one of the most original writers of our time, that never has so much genius been combined with so little talent.

There is only one thing left for you to do, ” John Sloan advised one artist. “Pull off your socks and try with your feet.

[I]t was [Barnett] Newman who made the famously wry remark, “Aesthetics is for the artist as ornithology is for the birds,

As George Russell defined a literary movement: “Five or six men who live in the same town and hate each other.

Gertrude’s remedy for her mood swings was to print up hundreds of black-bordered calling cards embossed with the single word “Woe, ” which she handed out gaily declaring, “Woe is me.

I'm not an abstractionist. I'm not interested in the relationship of color or form or anything else. I'm interested only in expressing basic human emotions: tragedy, ecstasy, doom, and so on.

As long as I can stay creative and used my mind, it can be 20 hours a day. I sleep four hours, so I've got 20 hours.

I encourage people to read by encouraging them to read whatever they want.

I'm British; pessimism is my wheelhouse.

We discussed relationships, abuse, divorce and more. In our society, women have no outlet for these things. The only outlet is the church. And the church can't handle everything. I saw a gap.

We are on a planet of seven billion people, five billion mobile subscriptions.

Everybody respects the Vietnam Veterans of America.

Like I've always said, what's hot must go cold.

The use of violence as an instrument of persuasion is therefore inviting and seems to the discontented to be the only effective protest.

I just put anything on my back. I take what I have on hand.