Quotes by 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.
• The best love affairs are those we never had.
• 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.'