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There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.

Reading is a majority skill but a minority art. Yet nothing can replace the exact, complicated, subtle communion between absent author and entranced, present reader.

Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.

Every man is an artist.

One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.

However great a man's natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.

I'm trying to get every man involved in art, into experimental music, or painting, or novel-writing.

A blind man can make art if what is in his mind can be passed to another mind in some tangible form.

Reading is an act of civilization; it's one of the greatest acts of civilization because it takes the free raw material of the mind and builds castles of possibilities.

Art is not in some far-off place. A work of art is the expression of a man's whole personality, sensibility and ability.