“Art is a way of survival.”

“To survive, our American art was cheating itself of life.”

“If art is to survive it must describe and express people, their lives and times.”

“Be a lover of the world, it is the only way to survive in it.”

“Special things have a way of surviving.”

“The art of letters will come to an end before A. D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.”

“The fittest survive.
What is meant by the fittest?
Not the strongest; not the cleverest —
Weakness and stupidity everywhere survive.
There is no way of determining fitness except in that a thing does survive.
"Fitness," then, is only another name for "survival."”

“It takes a great deal of strong personality to survive the art school training. Hard nuts that the art schools can't crack and devour get through and become artists.”

“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself (for God did not need to create). It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.”

“Science is not science. It's an art, like… art, in a way.”