The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.

If a patron buys from an artist who needs money, the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.

Speak against unconscious oppression,
Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative,
Speak against bonds.

Good art however 'immoral' is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.

Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture.

The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails