“The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.”

Every great change is simple.

What thou lovest well remains, the rest is dross What thou lov’st well shall not be reft from thee What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.

Wars are made to make debt.

A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.

There is natural ignorance and there is artificial ignorance. I should say at the present moment the artificial ignorance is about eighty-five per cent.

If a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.

If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.

A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.

With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.

And the days are not full enough And the nights are not full enough And life slips by like a field mouse Not shaking the grass.

Glance is the enemy of vision.

Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.

Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.

Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.

To say that a state cannot pursue its aims because there is no money, is like saying that an engineer cannot build roads, because there are no kilometers.

Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance, poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.

I designed my whole image. That was all me. I just bought some regular clothes, threw a medallion around my neck, and that was it. The next thing I know, that’s the look.

When I was six, God was a white man with a big beard riding on a white cloud. That’s the image television pumps.

Your image isn’t your character. Character is what you are as a person.

I support anyone’s right to be who they want to be. My question is: to what extent do I have to participate in your self-image?

I became hooked on the idea of being able to shoot an image and process it myself, and end up with a product.

My fascination with letting images repeat and repeat or in film’s case ‘run on’ manifests my belief that we spend much of our lives seeing without observing.

Don’t you know you are the only Jesus many people will ever see? In compromising your lifestyle, you forfeit your capacity to accurately reflect God’s image and endanger an entire generation’s understanding of Jesus.

We only dream of images we already have inside of us.