To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung.
My works were designed to amuse, annoy, bewilder, mystify and inspire reflection.
Lipstick is the red badge of courage.
A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him.
I like contradictions. We have never attained the infinite variety and contradictions that exist in nature. Tomorrow I shall contradict myself. That is the one way I have of asserting my liberty, the real liberty one does not find as a member of society.
Is photography an art? There is no point in trying to find out if it is an art. Art is old-fashioned. We need something else.
I paint what cannot be photographed, something from the imagination. . . I photograph the things I don't want to paint, things that are already in existence.
Dear child, I only did to you what the sparrow did to you; I am old when it is fashionable to be young; I cry when it is fashionable to laugh. I hated you when it would have taken less courage to love.
I certainly don't take life lightly. To respect the product that you're using, I think, is very important. I think it does connect you a little bit more.
He pretended it was the only thing that kept him from it. But, far back in his mind, he wondered if he could write anything. Often the question threw itself at him when he was least expecting it. You have four hours every morning, the statement would rise like a menacing wraith. You have time to write many thousands of words. Why don't you? And the answer was always lost in a tangle of becauses and wells and endless reasons that he clung to like a drowning man at straws.
I will not judge a person to be spiritually dead whom I have judged formerly to have had spiritual life, though I see him at present in a swoon (faint)as to all evidences of the spiritual life. And the reason why I will not judge him so is this -- because if you judge a person dead, you neglect him, you leave him; but if you judge him in a swoon,(faint) though never so dangerous, you use all means for the retrieving of his life.