The subject matter of art is life, life as it actually is; but the function of art is to make life better.
Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
It is inevitable when one has a great need of something one finds it. What you need you attract like a lover.
I have been the creative literary mind of the century.
Forget grammar and think about potatoes.
Animals in different countries have different expressions just as the people in different countries differ in expression.
You cannot go into the womb to form the child; it is there and makes itself and comes forth whole-and there it is and you have made it and have felt it, but it has come itself.
The earth is the earth as a peasant sees it, the world is the world as a duchess sees it, and anyway a duchess would be nothing if the earth was not there as the peasant sees it.
I certainly do care for you Jeff Campbell less than you are always thinking and much more than you are ever knowing.
One of the pleasant things those of us who write or paint do is to have the daily miracle. It does come.
Once more I can climb about and remind you that a woman in this epoch does the important literary thinking.
Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.
Supposing everyone lived at one time what would they say. They would observe that stringing string beans is universal.
In France one must adapt oneself to the fragrance of a urinal.
You attract what you need like a lover.
You are all a lost generation.
This is the place of places and and it is here.
If everyone were not so indolent they would realise that beauty is beauty even when it is irritating and stimulating not only when it is accepted and classic.
One must either accept some theory or else believe one’s own instinct or follow the world’s opinion.
Nothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.
Sculpture is made with two instruments and some supports and pretty air.