If a man has a talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has a talent and uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded . . ."

Loneliness is the central and inevitable experience of every man.

Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.

"This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave."

The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened.