The great object of life is Sensation – to feel that we exist – even though in pain.
Rhythm is something you either have or don’t have, but when you have it, you have it all over.
Painting is a blind man’s profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.
Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.
My role in society – or any artist or poet’s role – is to try to express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel, not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all.
It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures.
I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.
I feel healthy! I feel happy! I feel terrific!
I could never pretend to feel something I didn’t feel. I could never make love if I didn’t love, and if I loved I could no more hide the fact than change the color of my eyes.
Hear Reason, or she’ll make you feel her.
Be void of feeling! A heart that soon is stirred, Is a possession sad Upon this changing earth.
All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.
