Norman Lindsay

“Every mind which has given itself to self-expression in art is aware of a directing agency outside its conscious control which it has agreed to label 'inspiration'.”

“Sex is not only the basis of life, it is the reason for life.”

“A writer who presents men and women as creatures truncated below the waist is exposed as one who goes about without his trousers saying, 'see, I have had my testicles removed.'”

“The best love affairs are those we never had.”