Nothing is important save the spiritual state that enables one to subjectify one's thoughts to a sensation and to think only of the sensation, all the while searching to express it.

To say that a thing is beautiful is simply an act of faith, not a measurement on some kind of scale.

I do not belong to any school, I simply want to do something that is personal to my self.

Conceive of a picture really as a series of harmonies.

There is no art without a poetic aim.

We perceive nature through the senses, which give us images of forms of colour, sounds etc. A form which exists only in relation to another form on its own, it does not exist.

The expressive techniques of painting are capable of conveying an analogy but not an impossible photograph of a moment.

The painter’s instrument is his armchair.

We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Some of my troubles are so familiar, I know them by their first names.

Us writers all like each other and want to write stories with each other; we're having a good time.

Cuisine is when things taste like themselves.

There's something about pulling out a real tape from a shelf and looking at it and knowing that 'Everlong' is on it, or 'Best of You' is on it, and it's really special.

At its finest moments climbing allows me to step out of ordinary existence into something extraordinary, stripping me of my sense of self-importance.

You cannot hope to bribe or twist, thank God! The British journalist. But seeing what the man will do unbribed, there's no occasion to!

The analysis of character is the highest human entertainment.

There is a reason and not a reason for everything.

I have no idea what readership is of written editorials, but it doesn't come anywhere close to the readership of editorial cartoons.