"Art is an instrument in the war..." - Quote by Pablo Picasso

“I hate it when people pilfer my things.”

“That inspiration comes, does not depend on me. The only thing I can do is make sure it catches me working.”

“Those trying to explain pictures are as a rule completely mistaken.”

“English literature, from the days of the minstrels to the Lake Poets,--Chaucer and Spenser and Milton, and even Shakespeare, included,--breathes no quite fresh and, in this sense, wild strain. It is an essentially tame and civilized literature, reflecting Greece and Rome. Her wildness is a greenwood, her wild man a Robin Hood. There is plenty of genial love of Nature, but not so much of Nature herself. Her chronicles inform us when her wild animals, but not the wild man in her, became extinct.”

“Making a logging-road in the Maine woods is called "swamping" it, and they who do the work are called "swampers." I now perceivedthe fitness of the term. This was the most perfectly swamped of all the roads I ever saw. Nature must have coöperated with art here.”

“The measure of artistic merit is the length to which a writer is willing to go in following his own compulsions.”

“Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.”

“These are the forgeries of jealousy; And never, since the middle summer's spring, Met we on hill, in dale, forest, or mead, By paved fountain or by rushy brook, Or in the beached margent of the sea, To dance our ringlets to the whistling wind, But with thy brawls thou hast disturbed our sport.”

“We should really love each other in peace and harmony, instead we're fussin' n fighting like we ain't supposed to be.”