My art is an attempt to reach beyond the surface appearance. I want to see growth in wood, time in stone, nature in a city, and I do not mean its parks but a deeper understanding that a city is nature too-the ground upon which it is built, the stone with which it is made.

When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away?

Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw.

The movie feels to me like a real work of lovely art.

I am an artist, art has no color and no sex.

The art of acting is to be other than what you are.

I didn't have any real art training, but when I was about twelve nad thirteen, another boy and I went to a sign painter's house every Friday night and took lessons.

He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.

The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.

In art the best is good enough.

It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself.

The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.

Personality is everything in art and poetry.

One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together.

The real artist has no idea that he is sacrificing himself for art. He does what he does for one reason and one reason only-he can't help doing it.