One of the temptations of an artist is to believe himself solitary ...But this is not true. He stands in the midst of all, in the same rank

One can reject all history and yet accept the world of the sea and the stars.

'Only the modern city,' Hegel dares to write, 'offers the mind a field in which it can become aware of itself.' We are thus living in the period of big cities.…

Of whom and of what indeed can I say: 'I know that!' This heart within me I can feel, and I judge that it exists. This world I can touch, and I likewise judge …

'I constantly try to reinvent my sensibilities and my ideas. I enjoy some of the satisfaction that I get when I feel good about what I've done. But the process…

We're creators by permission, by grace as it were. No one creates alone, of and by himself. An artist is an instrument that registers something already existen…

The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid: the state of being alone.