To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.

Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds the book of their words and the book of their art.

Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.

The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third.

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.

My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.

The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination.

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

I think that narrative fiction filmmaking is the culmination of several art forms: theater art history architecture. Whereas doc filmmaking is more pure cinema like cinema verite is film in its purest form.

The same sort of thing happened in my dispute with the National Trust book: Follies: A National Trust Guide which implied that the only pleasure you can get from Folly architecture is by calling the architect mad and by laughing at the architecture.