“Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.”

“Art in Nature is rhythmic and has a horror of constraint.”

“You are welcome to your intellectual pastimes and books and art and newspapers welcome, too, to your bars and your whisky that only makes me ill. Here am I in the forest, quite content.”

“The smart thing in the art world is to have one good idea and never have another.”

“As in nature, as in art, so in grace it is rough treatment that gives souls, as well as stones, their luster.”

“But theater, because of its nature, both text, images, multimedia effects, has a wider base of communication with an audience. That's why I call it the most social of the various art forms.”

“In mathematics the art of proposing a question must be held of higher value than solving it.”

“I have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can bring anyone to the end he must attain.”

“Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.”