The street is noisy and the men and women are not perfect in the technique of their expression as the statues are. They are ugly and imperfect, incomplete even as human beings, and where they come from and where they go cannot be known. But they are people and therefore infinitely to be preferred to those who stand upon the pedestals of art.

The instinct which creates the arts is not the same as that which produces art. The creative instinct is, in its final analysis and in its simplest terms, an e…

Story belongs to the people. They are sounder judges of it than anyone else, for their senses are unspoiled and their emotions are free.

The people of China forged their own literature apart from letters. And today this is what lives, to be part of what is to come, and all the formal literature,…

Writing...is an art; and artists...are human beings. As a human being stands, so a human being is....

A painter paints the appearance of things, not their objective correctness, in fact he creates new appearances of things.

It is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief.