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Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.

Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.

A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong.

Everybody denies I am a genius - but nobody ever called me one!

The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it.

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

Personally, I don't like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she'll fool her husband, I figure she'll fool me.

When you are down and out something always turns up - and it is usually the noses of your friends.

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

The laws and the stage, both are a form of exhibitionism.

The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.

The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.

The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful.

Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.

Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate.