The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian unless the latter too be lovers in disguise.

My attitude about Hollywood is that I wouldn't walk across the street to pull one of those executives out of the snow if he was bleeding to death. Not unless I was paid for it. None of them ever did me any favors.

I don't return anybody's calls unless it's going to mean extra money for me. And I've completely cut off all relationships with any friends that I had before the show. And I've copped an attitude.

In my world history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought who won them and who lost them - unless there is a painting a play a song or a poem that speaks of the event.

Our individual lives cannot generally be works of art unless the social order is also.

What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something because of course art is about sharing. You wouldn't be an artist unless you wanted to share an experience a thought.

Art has to move you and design does not unless it's a good design for a bus.

Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.

In a decaying society art if it is truthful must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.

I've never really had a hobby unless you count art which the IRS once told me I had to declare as a hobby since I hadn't made money with it.