No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.
The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.
Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.
A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not.
Art is never finished, only abandoned.
Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.
Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books - especially the bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day.
The life of the arts is a test of the quality of a nation's civilization.
I think in art, but especially in films, people are trying to confirm their own existences.
Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.
For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.
The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.