"I walked the streets and tasted the golden sun that lay across the city."

"An artist is a person first."

"It’s not a pretty world, Papa.” “I’ve noticed,” my father said softly."

"An artist has got to get acquainted with himself just as much as he can. It is no easy job, for it is not a present-day habit of humanity."

"A man must be forced to choose. It is only when you are forced to choose that you know what is important to you."

"They are so rigid,' he said in a sudden angry voice. 'Why do they not see that this rigidity turns away our greatest minds?"