It's no use. I find it impossible to work with security staring me in the face. - Sherwood Anderson

The object of art is not to make salable pictures. It is to save yourself.

The fools who write articles about me think that one morning I suddenly decided to write and began to produce masterpieces.

There is no special trick about writing or painting either. I wrote constantly for 15 years before I produced anything with any solidity to it....

The thing of course, is to make yourself alive. Most people remain all of their lives in a stupor.

The point of being an artist is that you may live....

You won't arrive. It is an endless search.

I have always been one who wanted a great of love, admiration and respect from others without having to go to all the trouble of deserving it.

I am becoming old and queer.