There is a deep question whether the possible meanings that emerge from an effort to explain the experience of art may not mask the real meanings of a work of art.

For too long the world has failed to recognise that the Olympic Games and the Olympic Movement are about fine athletics and fine art.

The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can't fake it... try to fake three laughs in an hour - ha ha ha ha ha - they'll take you away, man. You can't.

There is something about seeing real people on a stage that makes a bad play more intimately, more personally offensive than any other art form.

All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.

Every man should follow the bent of his nature in art and letters, always provided that he does not offend against the rules of morality and good taste.

Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.

Art, in the first place, has to connect with yourself.

I never wanted to dilute my private passion for the art by airing and arguing it in public.

The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movements of thought and soul transmitted in a kind of intense isolation.

Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home.

What is interesting about self-analysis is that it leads nowhere - it is an art form in itself.

Man is unique not because he does science, and his is unique not because he does art, but because science and art equally are expressions of his marvelous plasticity of mind.

Just because people can express themselves through their art doesn't mean they are great communicators in person.

We need more theatres, more art and more culture in this country.