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“Many have genius, but, wanting art, are forever dumb. The two must go together to form the great poet, painter, or sculptor.”
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“In preparing a study or a picture, it seems to me very important to begin by an indication of the darkest values... and to continue in order to the lightest value. From the darkest to the lightest I would establish twenty shades.”
Source : "Artists on Art - from the 14th - 20th centuries" edited by Robert Goldwater and Marco Treves; Pantheon Books, London, (p. 240), 1972.
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“Where some people are very wealthy and others have nothing, the result will be either extreme democracy or absolute oligarchy, or despotism will come from either of those excesses.”
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“BC is not going to replace the hierarchy, and BC is not going to lead some major reform in the Catholic Church - that's got to come out of the whole Catholic community.”
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“It's a wonderful thing to be optimistic. It keeps you healthy and it keeps you resilient.”
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“Lead me from death to life, from falsehood to truth; Lead me from despair to hope, from fear to trust; Lead me from hate to love, from war to peace; Let peace fill our heart, our world, our universe”
Source : Prayer for Peace (1981; adapted from the Upanishads)
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“I am led to the proposition that there is no fiction or nonfiction as we commonly understand the distinction: there is only narrative.”
Source : E.L. Doctorow (2011). “Jack London, Hemingway, and the Constitution:: Selected Essays, 1977-1992”, p.160, Random House
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“If you asked me what is the basis of all my work, it's the feeling there's something basically wrong with human beings.”
