If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, I will answer you: "I am here to live out loud

I am an artist... I am here to live out loud.

If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.

I defy you to find any real will, any reasoning force, outside of life. And everything is there; there is, in the world, no other will than this force which impels everything to life, a life even broader and higher.

The thought is a deed. Of all deeds she fertilizes the world most.

Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest