Self-Deprecating Sayings

I'm not a machine. I'm a human being. I have feelings. I have a soul. And I don't like being told what to do.

I have found that it is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay. Small acts of kindness and love.

When I was a child I was too old for my age and now I am an old man I am too young for my age.

I think I have a lot of mischief in me.

I never intended to become an illustrator or a writer. I was an artist. I intended to become a great American artist.

One of the things I like about living in the country is that I can say anything I like and nobody hears me but the cows.

My dear Watson, you were in my mind, just as I was in yours.

I am not a man, I am a river.

My mind is fixed, I have no time for love.

I have spent my time in writing, and have not been a man of action.

I was not a Negro. I was a Black man. And my country is not a country. It is a state of mind.

It seems to me that if I am to sustain myself as a writer, I must be given the right to write as I see fit.

I am a poet and I belong to all the world.

I use words because I have nothing else.

I am working very hard, struggling with a series of different effects, but at this time of year the sun sets so fast that I cannot keep up with it.

I am a very serious man. I am a very serious artist. But I am also a very serious clown.

I do not know whether my paintings are surrealist or not, but I do know that they are the most frank expression of myself.

I am a person who is very superficial. I like surfaces.

I am not satisfied with what I have done; I want to do more.

When I am traveling, I cannot look at the sky or the trees or anything that is beautiful, for I am thinking of nothing but my music.