“In art it is not enough to have talent. A true artist with the mind must never lack imagination and order his body to perform, remember and then archive.”

Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990), p. 660

The Art Work of Louis C. Tiffany [biography dictated to Charles de Kay] (Doubleday, Page & Co New York, 1916)

Suffering
Source: I am That, P.130.

Source: The Roving Mind (1983), Ch. 25
Context: How often people speak of art and science as though they were two entirely different things, with no interconnection. An artist is emotional, they think, and uses only his intuition; he sees all at once and has no need of reason. A scientist is cold, they think, and uses only his reason; he argues carefully step by step, and needs no imagination. That is all wrong. The true artist is quite rational as well as imaginative and knows what he is doing; if he does not, his art suffers. The true scientist is quite imaginative as well as rational, and sometimes leaps to solutions where reason can follow only slowly; if he does not, his science suffers.

Source: 1980s, The Nine Questions People Ask About Judaism (1986), p. 43

Quod siquis vera vitam ratione gubernet,
divitiae grandes homini sunt vivere parvo
aequo animo; neque enim est umquam penuria parvi.
Book V, lines 1117–1119 (tr. Rouse)
De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things)

Part 5 "On training in Jeet Kune Do"
Jeet Kune Do (1997)

Vol. I, ch. 9
Lady Holland's Memoir (1855)