I'm a laugh tart. I make no secret of that fact.

Music is one of the noblest callings I can think of. It's the highest of all the art forms to me. For example, if my kid said to me, 'I want to give it all up,' whatever it is that they're doing, 'and I want to take my saxophone and go out,' I would say, 'May God go with you. This is a great and noble thing that you're doing.'

Screenwriting is the most prized of all the cinematic arts. Actually, it isn't, but it should be.

The art of acting is not to act. Once you show them more, what you show them, in fact is bad acting.

The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of friendship or affection.

A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.

Art is the Mirror of our betrayed ideals.

I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.

“You have to wake people up! To revolutionize their way of identifying things...you've got to create images they won't accept.”

“The bad artists imitate, the great artists steal.”

“I'd like to live like a poor man - only with lots of money.”

“Nothing is worse than a brilliant beginning.”

“Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.”

“I don't develop; I am.”

“We all know that art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand.”

“I begin with an idea, and then it becomes something else.”-Pablo Picasso- read 6/3/17”

“How is it possible to be uninterested in other men and by virtue of what cold nonchalance can you detach yourself from the life that they supply so copiously?”

“Go and do the things you can’t. That is how you get to do them.”

“We artists are indestructible, even in a prison cell or a concentration camp I would be all right in my own world of art. Even if I had to paint my pictures with my tongue on the dusty floor of my cell.”

“I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it”

“Some painters turn a yellow dot into the sun, others turn the sun into a yellow dot.”

“It is a miracle that one does not dissolve into one's bath like a lump of sugar.”

“Inspiration existis, but it has to find us working.”

“It takes a long time to become young”