Quite possibly, what I call happiness may coincide with what others call the moment of imminent danger

Perfect purity is possible if you turn your life into a line of poetry written with a splash of blood.

True beauty is something that attacks, overpowers, robs, and finally destroys.

Nobody even imagines how well one can lie about the state of one’s own heart.

Young people get the foolish idea that what is new for them must be new for everybody else too. No matter how unconventional they get, they're just repeating what others before them have done.

Beauty is something that burns the hand when you touch it.

The special quality of hell is to see everything clearly down to the last detail.

By means of microscopic observation and astronomical projection the lotus flower can become the foundation for an entire theory of the universe and an agent whereby we may perceive Truth.

For an artist to do creative work, he needs at once physical health and some physiomental ill health. He needs both serenity and gloom.

Anything can become excusable when seen from the standpoint of the result

As long as you know I am waiting, take your time flowers of the spring.

I can feel no sentiment of approbation inferior to love.

It is love’s nature to be expressed.

If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness.

Life is all about finding challenges for yourself that you want to try to achieve.

I love all my Wrights and it would be impossible to say which one I love more, but if you really pushed me, it would be Joe.

The artist writes, paints, sings or dances the burden of some idea or feeling off his mind.

Little moments can have a feeling and a texture that is very real.

Reason elevates our thoughts as high as the stars, and leads us through the vast space of this mighty fabric; yet it comes far short of the real extent of our corporeal being.

What the heck would the establishment know about conservatism?

To be romantic is quite simply to allow yourself to fall in love with life - all of life - and experience it fully, openly, passionately, and purposefully