The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart..

Words are intermediary between thought and things. We express ourselves really not through words, which are only signs, but through what they signify….

For me, painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh..

Strategy is the most important department of the art of war, and strategical skill is the highest and rarest function of military genius..

There are some arts which to those that possess them are painful, but to those that use them are helpful, a common good to laymen, but to those that ….

The client isn't quite satisfied and then the prostitute is always unsatisfied but is doing it just to make ends meet. And if you're doing fine art, ….

She wants to lead the glamorous life, but without love, it ain't much..

[Audubon's works are] the most splendid monuments which art has erected in honor of ornithology..

As a model you have to convey something with one look - and actors will have a scene and they can sort of do it, but models have to convey what photo….

Hollywood movies of the Fifties, like The Ten Commandments and Ben-Hur, with their epic clash of pagan and Judeo-Christian cultures, tell more about ….

The number one problem in academia today is not ignorant students but ignorant professors, who have substituted narrow "expertise" and "theoretical s….

In those days, Christmas still retained a certain aura of magic and mystery. The powdery light of winter, the hopeful expressions of people who lived….

I like to be surrounded by books. My wife Evelyn has a PhD in comparative literature so we have a lot of her Spanish and German literature books whic….

There's an alternative. There's always a third way, and it's not a combination of the other two ways. It's a different way..

The cynical, caustic, acid-tongued New York drama critic Addison De Witt introduces his protege/date of the moment, a bimbo date and so-called actres….

Art is dedicated echo..

Either you understand or you don't, and that is that..

I cannot help thinking that the death of the young is not in the plan of our being, and that we are ourselves greatly responsible for it. Indeed I be….

Attack is only one half of the art of boxing..

I'm a huge fan of animation, and just the arts in general - anything that emanates from someone's mind and soul and is capable of touching other peop….

Good-breeding is the art of showing men, by external signs, the internal regard we have for them. It arises from good sense, improved by conversing w….