Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.

Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.

Diplomacy means the art of nearly deceiving all your friends, but not quite deceiving all your enemies.

Well my taste wasn't very good when I first started out. But later, when I began to appreciate the art of acting, I would say the actress I most admire is Vanessa Redgrave.

If you don't get noticed, you don't have anything. You just have to be noticed, but the art is in getting noticed naturally, without screaming or without tricks.

Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

I think when an actress marries she should leave the stage. She cannot be happy if she is married and remains on the stage. She must care more for her art or for her husband.

If I ever loved a man better than I love my art, I should marry him and leave the stage. But I have never met such a man.

To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.

To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art.

Broadway has changed tremendously from the early days when the shows were referred to as musical comedies. Musical Theater is now a more expanded art form. Back then, singer/actors were not the norm. From the 60's to now, it is necessary to do it all to be a consummate Broadway performer.

As I had collaborated with visual artists before whether on installations, on performance pieces, in the context of theatre works and as I had taught for a time in art colleges the idea of writing music in response to painting was not alien.

Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the symbols of thought in such a manner as to excite the imagination the most powerfully and delightfully.

I chose faces and figures as my subject matter simply due to the fact that the human form is already beautiful art.