Quotes from Austin O'Malley

Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art.

Art is awkward until technique has become an unconscious habit.

The swing of art is circular, from form to formalism, from formalism to formlessness, from formlessness to form again.

That art is best which suggests most.

Take a quart of nature, boil it down to a pint, and the residue is art.

We use religion like a trolley-car--we ride on it only while it is going our way.

Shame is the turnkey that keeps our evil desires in jail.

A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.

Memory is a crazy woman who hoards colored rags and throws away food.