art
“Works of art are of an infinite loneliness and nothing can reach them so little as criticism.”
“In Europe, an actor is an artist. In Hollywood, if he isn’t working, he’s a bum.”
“Acting is not being emotional, but being able to express emotion.”
“Avoid excess: art's true maxim.”
“The perfection of art is to conceal art.”
“Poetry is the grandest effort of a great soul struggling with the storms of this lower world.”
“Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance.”
“And the days are not full enough; and the nights are not full enough.”
“What Reason weaves, by Passion is undone.”
“Tea is a work of art and needs a master hand to bring out its noblest qualities.”
“I hate flowers—I paint them because they’re cheaper than models and they don’t move.”
“To create one’s own world in any of the arts takes courage.”
“I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way—things I had no words for.”
“Satire is a lesson; parody is a game.”
“It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.”
“Advertising is the greatest art form of the twentieth century.”
“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”
“Genius, all over the world, stands hand in hand, and one shock of recognition runs the whole circle round.”
“The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp.”
“Music is the universal language of mankind.”