"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."

"The Negroes are certainly more primitive than us, but not in a negative sense."

"It is not enough to teach a man a specialty. Through it he may become a kind of useful machine but not a harmoniously developed personality."

"The only way to do great work is to love what you do."

"I never think of the future – it comes soon enough."