A walk down 14th street is more amazing than any masterpiece of art.

The line between art and life should be kept as fluid, and perhaps indistinct, as possible.

The young artist of today need no longer say 'I am a painter,' or 'a poet,' or 'a dancer.' He is simply an 'artist.' All of life will be open to him.

This everyday world affects the way art is created as much as it conditions its response.

The young artist... will discover out of ordinary things the meaning of ordinariness. He will not try to make them extraordinary. Only their real meaning will be stated.

Artist refers to a person, willfully enmeshed in a dilemma of categories, who performs as if none of them existed.

I am not so sure whether what we do now is art or something not quite art. If I call it art, it is because I wish to avoid the endless arguments some other name would bring forth.

Doing life consciously was a compelling notion to me.

You can't teach colour from Cézanne, you can only teach it from something like this bubble-gum wrapper.

Some of us will probably become famous. It will be an ironic fame fashioned largely by those who have never seen our work.

...it's not what artists touch that counts most. It's what they don't touch.

We are transformed by every sacred-experience.

Though under earth, and throneless now I beYet while I lived all earth was under me.

Arrogance is the armour of the weak. They are always at war to hide their real self.

...it is not for the illusion of a moment to govern the choice of a lifetime.

No other island received as much preliminary pounding as did Iwo Jima.

Listen to people, gain advice and gain the respect of your fellow team-mates. Make sure you put in the hours and you'll have fun.

Character I want to be: "Blunt Talk's".

When you say you're doing an opera, it's like when you're a seven-year-old and say, 'I'm off to Washington, Dad.' You kind of go, 'Sure. Sure you are, son.'

As an actor, I like as much time with the material as possible and given the opportunity, time spent with the other actors in the scene. But that is a rare luxury in working in any TV series.

Rejoice! Rejoice! Rejoice!