"O'Keeffe approaches a milkman whilst out in London recruiting, prods a youth pushing a milk cart :"Say, don't you want to serve your king?" "Yus" answered the youth "How many quarts will he want?"

"..No academy could have given me all I discovered by getting my teeth into the exhibitions, the shop window…"

"Conrad Aiken, The Art of Poetry No. 9", interview by Robert Hunter Wilbur, in The Paris Review"

"He was preaching socialism long before Marx, Stalin or Brezhnev. He said things would not go well for Engla…"

"In the West, we have easier ways now to make a killing than killing. If Sir Francis Drake, the great admira…"

"GO TO HELL BASTARD STOP. REFUSE PRIZE STOP. NEVER ASKED FOR IT STOP. AGAINST ALL DECENCY MIX ARTIST AGAINST…"

"You can do plein-air painting indoors, by painting white in the morning, lilac during the day and orange to…"