Criticism is the windows and chandeliers of art: it illuminates the enveloping darkness in which art might otherwise rest only vaguely discernible, and perhaps altogether unseen.

Criticism is the art of appraising others at one's own value.

To play safe, I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of art over trash, the triumph of magic over the brute.

A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.

It's not enough for me to cover theater, I have to throw myself around every other art form, and do so thoroughly and relentlessly.

Don't you know that every perfect life would mean the end of art?

Layer by layer art strips life bare.

The thought came to me that all one loves in art becomes beautiful. Beauty is nothing but the expression of the fact that something is being loved. Only thus could she be defined.

People say conversation is a lost art; how often I have wished it were.

I do not feel any artist can produce great art without putting great personality into it. It is always a piece of you that goes on the screen or the canvass.

When I speak to students and they ask how much money you can make in art, as if that is a reason to persue it, I tell them to do something else.

Somebody said us artists have trouble with success because art is derived from struggle. I disagree with that, because truely doing your art is success, whether you make money from it or not.

Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.

But fantasy kills imagination, pornography is death to art.

All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.