"The great artists of the world are..." - Quote by H L Mencken

“There is in writing the constant joy of sudden discovery, of happy accident.”

“I well recall my horror when I heard for the first time, of a journalist who had laid in a pair of what were then called bicycle pants and taken to golf; it was as if I had encountered a studhorse with his hair done up in frizzes, and pink bowknots peeking out of them. It seemed, in some vague way, ignominious, and even a bit indelicate.”

“No matter how much a woman loved a man, it would still give her a glow to see him commit suicide for her.”

“Art is identical with a state of capacity to make, involving a true course of reasoning.”

“We admire Chaucer for his sturdy English wit.... But though it is full of good sense and humanity, it is not transcendent poetry.For picturesque description of persons it is, perhaps, without a parallel in English poetry; yet it is essentially humorous, as the loftiest genius never is.”

“Some people focus more on sonics. Some people focus more on story. I focus on both sonics and story.”

“I think it is perfectly natural for any artist to admire intensely and love a young man. It is an incident in the life of almost every artist.”

“Great artists are modest almost as seldom as they are faithful to their wives.”

“Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to absolute oblivion. They never paint what they see. They paint what the public sees, and the public never sees anything.”