The bashful are always aggressive at heart.
To desire to be an artist is to desire to be a complete man in respect to some one function, to realize yourself utterly. A man is a poor thing who is content not to be an artist.
Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also.
One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self-criticism of a tired mind is suicide.
An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.