The whole Modernist lie is that art is about the artist.

Why do people talk of the horrors of old age? It's great. I feel like a fine old car with the parts gradually wearing out, but I'm not complaining,... Those who find growing old terrible are people who haven't done what they wanted with their lives.

Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.

The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the truth in everything and finds it.

The older generation had greater respect for land than science. But we live in an age when science, more than soil, has become the provider of growth and abundance. Living just on the land creates loneliness in an age of globality.