Respect your characters, even the ­minor ones. In art, as in life, everyone is the hero of their own particular story; it is worth thinking about wha….

I'm not saying that all college students are subhuman - I'm just saying that if you aim to spend a few years mastering the art of pomposity, these ar….

. . . rock and roll, as I see it, is the ultimate populist art form, democracy in action, because it's true: anybody can do it..

The first mistake of art is to assume that it's serious..

I think what we like about music - and what we like about art in general....is that enterprise that stops our minds from spinning. Because we're alwa….

Bullfighting is anachronistic - you enter into a bullring and you're leaving behind the values of the world outside the ring. I suppose that what I w….

As much as it pleases God to bless you, there will be moments when everything you try goes up in smoke. There will be moments when the one you counte….

I was always a natural performer. It was easy for me. I danced and I sang, and all that stuff. I felt like I'd be something in the arts, but it vacil….

You get what you get when you get it..

I was a jock, hardcore sports all the way down the line, but I heard that if you auditioned for this arts school, you got time off school, and that s….

I'm into women. I've always loved women..

High finance isn't burglary or obtaining money by false pretenses, but rather a judicious selection from the best features of those fine arts..

Every great work of art should be considered like any work of nature. First of all from the point of view of its aesthetic reality and then not just ….

The function of art is to struggle against obligation..

When I know your soul, I will paint your eyes..

Our thoughts are to the individual as our art is to the community..

In the end, I feel that one has to have a bit of neurosis to go on being an artist. A balanced human seldom produces art. It's that imbalance which i….

We don't eat anything that has to be killed for us..

From 50 centuries, we can learn about the close relationship between garden design and urban design, because both arts involve the composition of bui….

Whenever I eat at a restaurant I never put the napkin in my lap. People say, 'Hannibal, why don't you put the napkin in your lap?' Because I believe ….

Art should be something like a good armchair in which to rest from physical fatigue..