You do have to be fairly selfish when you have a gift. You cannot afford to let too many outside read more

You do have to be fairly selfish when you have a gift. You cannot afford to let too many outside things get in the way.

You don't take a photograph, you make it.

You don't take a photograph, you make it.

Writing is like walking in a deserted street. Out of the dust in the street you make a mud pie.

Writing is like walking in a deserted street. Out of the dust in the street you make a mud pie.

Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.

Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.

I paint with shapes.

I paint with shapes.

I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.

I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.

Art is an experience, not the formulation of a problem.

Art is an experience, not the formulation of a problem.

I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most read more

I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.

Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.

Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.