It seems likely that many of the young who don't wait for others to call them artists but simply announce that they are don't have the patience to make art.

Cruelty is a part of nature at least of human nature but it is the one thing that seems unnatural to us.

When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other it seems to me in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband that they belong to each other in the name of Nature and are lovers by Divine right in spite of human convention or the laws.

This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles but ours seems to be based on war and games.

Resentment seems to have been given us by nature for a defense and for a defense only! It is the safeguard of justice and the security of innocence.

It seems to be a law of nature that no man unless he has some obvious physical deformity ever is loth to sit for his portrait.

It seems to be a law of nature inflexible and inexorable that those who will not risk cannot win.

Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.

Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices and to have determined how good or how wicked that man shall be capable of being.

The snow itself is lonely or if you prefer self-sufficient. There is no other time when the whole world seems composed of one thing and one thing only.