This, then, is the ultimate, that is only, consolation: simply that someone shares some of your own feelings and has made of these a work of art whic….

Art, industry, and commerce, so long crushed and overborne, were stirring into renewed life, and a crowd of adventurous men, nurtured in war and inca….

All men are creative but few are artists..

It's never over till it's over with a friend..

I don't defeat my opponents, they defeat themselves..

To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation..

Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you h….

Stand-up is something I just truly love to do, so I'll always go back to it. I'll never stop doing it, that's for sure..

I went to the Brit School for the performing arts in Croydon at 14, picking music as my main subject, and I'm so glad I did. I knew lots of people wh….

When you're writing a 25-minute episode that can be anything, sometimes you just start with a character, and you let them walk into the room. Then yo….

The day you stop learning is the day you begin decaying..

All the great things we know have come to us from neurotics. It is they who have founded religions and created great works of art..

For we put the thought of all that we love into all that we make..

Art does not reproduce the visible; it makes visible..

Science and art are the handmaids of religion..

I enjoy doing martial arts films, but I like the straight stuff, too. I'd like to go back and do some Shakespeare, and maybe knock out a play or two.….

Art is not truth; art is the lie which makes us see the truth..

The dream of reason produces monsters. Imagination deserted by reason creates impossible, useless thoughts. United with reason, imagination is the mo….

The days passed, as they do, and life went on..

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 try to write art theory down and understand it but I'm not a writer. I don't want to impress people with my writing. I'd rather impress people with….