If you love the good thing vitally, enough to give up for it all that one must give up, then you must hate the cheap thing just as hard. I tell you, there is such a thing as creative hate! A contempt that drives you through fire, makes you risk everything and lose everything, makes you a long sight better than you ever knew you could be.

When we look back, the only things we cherish are those which in some way met our original want; the desire which formed in us in early youth, undirected, and …

Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness. The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, th…

What was any art but an effort to make a sheath, a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining, elusive element which is life itself - life hurrying pa…

Of right and wrong he taught Truths as refined as ever Athens heard; And (strange to tell!) he practised what he preached.

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

A few honest men are better than numbers.