The first hope of a painter who feels hopeful about painting is the hope that the painting will move, that it will live outside its frame.
I am I because my little dog knows me but, creatively speaking the little dog knowing that you are you and your recognising that he knows, that is what destroys creation. That is what makes school.
A creator is not in advance of his generation but he is the first of his contemporaries to be conscious of what is happening to his generation.
Argument is to me the air I breathe.
If you are a thinker, you will change the language. You will not use words the way others do.
It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.
There are so many ways of earning a living and most of them are failures.
Water astonishing and difficult altogether makes a meadow and a stroke.
Some out of their own virtue make a god who sometimes later is a nuisance to them, a terror perhaps to them, a difficult thing to be forgetting.
One never discusses anything with anybody who can understand one discusses things with people who cannot understand.
Superstition is believing that something means anything and that anything means something and that each thing means a particular thing and will mean a particular thing is coming. Oh yes it does.
Forensics is eloquence and reduction.
How I wish I were able to say what I think...
When I said. A rose is a rose is a rose. And then later made that into a ring I made poetry and what did I do I caressed completely caressed and addressed a noun.
If fishes were wishes the ocean would be all of our desire.
Repeating then is in every one, in every one their being and their feeling and their way of realising everything and every one comes out of them in repeating. More and more then every one comes to be clear to some one.
The times are so peculiar now, so mediaeval so unreasonable that for the first time in a hundred years truth is really stranger than fiction. Any truth.
Language as a real thing is not imitation either of sounds or colors or emotions it is an intellectual recreation and there is nopossible doubt about it and it is going to go on being that as long as humanity is anything.
A conversation in English in Finnish and in French can not be held at the same time nor with indifference ever or after a time.