Fear, safety, and conformity make you mediocre and average

The purpose of art is higher than art. What we are really interested in are masterpieces of humanity.

The artistic path is a fearless occupation.

The world loves a clone and a good knock-off. It cheats the artist... In the obsession for technical wizardry, people disappear; and if your voice isn't present in a relationship, you don't matter.

What’s interesting about you is you.

Art is a form of intelligence, it can be developed, it's linked to intuition and it's something that all humans have

To change the world, you must first change yourself. And baby, that's hard enough.

Be IN it. Get drunk in the moment.

Art is the inheritance of every individual, it activates evolutionary growth, it is an intellectual virtue, and the fostering principle for all that is made, done, or known.

The deep art... That's the part that has to be guarded like a miser would his money... Like a dope addict would his dope... Like a lover with their love.

I will to my dying day oppose, with all the powers and faculties God has given me, all such instruments of slavery on the one hand and villainy on the other, as this Writ of Assistance is.

With all due respect to my surgeon, in a perfect world he would be out of a job.

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

The experimental poetry thing is not my thing. It's a programme of the avant-garde: basically a refusal of the kind of poetry I write.

I'm supposed to be a normal, sane type person, but after you go through war and such, you become superstitious. I am convinced that somebody is looking after me.

I'm not trying to be coy, but I think everyone notices these things like skin color but some people are more aware that they are noticing them than others, maybe. If that makes sense.

Most people are so frightened of the name of mathematics that they are ready, quite unaffectedly, to exaggerate their own mathematical stupidity.

Is there any such thing as wisdom not applied to life?

If you are flammable and have legs, you are not blocking a fire exit.

It's easy to get buried in the past when you try to make a good thing last.