"Clatter of a typewriter suggests that you're actually building something."

"Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art."

"The true art of memory is the art of attention."

"But Natural Selection, as we shall hereafter see, is a power incessantly ready for action, and is immeasurably superior to man's feeble efforts, as the works of Nature are to those of Art."

"Any asshole can chase a skirt, art takes discipline."

"Great art is horseshit, buy tacos."

"The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries out in terror before being vanquished."

"Music fathoms the sky."

"Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art."

"Always be a poet, even in prose."

"An artist has got to get acquainted with himself just as much as he can. It is no easy job, for it is not a present-day habit of humanity."

"An artist is a person first."

"I do not know what evil is when it comes to art. I only know what is good art and what is bad art."

"Have thine own way, Lord! Have thine own way! Thou art the Potter and I am the clay."

"Millions of people can draw. Art is whether there is a scream in you wanting to get out in a special way."

"... an artist is a person first. He is an individual. If there is no person, there is no artist."

"I do not have many things that are meaningful to me. Except my doubts and my fears. And my art."

"Art begins . . . when someone interprets, when someone sees the world through his own eyes. Art happens when what is seen becomes mixed with the inside of the person who is seeing it."

"Art is whether or not there is a scream in him wanting to get out in a special way."

"From taking photographs of George and Charlotte, I have been struck by the wonderful lack of self-consciousness that you see in photographs of children, without the self-awareness that adults generally feel."

"There are people who expect me to look the way I do on-screen, where I have a great director of photography and fantastic lighting. I'm sorry to disappoint people, but I don't look like that all the time - no actress does."

"I remember growing up knowing I wanted to be on the stage. I wanted to get to London as soon as possible and start auditioning for theater."

"I would have liked maybe to be in architecture or painting, something connected to the fine arts."

"Film is a very young art that is still evolving. Soon, we shall reach a balance between content and technology."