Anything new, anything worth doing, can't be recognized.

Everything you can imagine is real.

Action is the foundational key to all success.

Why do you try to understand art? Do you try to understand the song of a bird?

The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

Running from horrors doesn't help. The only way to deal with them is to meet them head-on.

Yeah, I love being famous. It's almost like being white, y'know?

Sometimes I wonder if any of us are cut out for the lives we lead.

From birth to death, anyone can fish. I just think it's fantastic to see old people going fishing with young people and teaching them things. I'm very, very critical.

It could be disastrous to speak your mind while you are deep in thought.

If you watch a film without music, there's nothing that you can connect with.

And I offer you this parable: Not a few who sought to cast out their devil entered into the swine themselves.

The governments of the great States have two instruments for keeping the people dependent, in fear and obedience: a coarser, the army; and a more refined, the school.

America is an incredibly polarized country politically. I think ANY Republican would start out with 42 percent of the vote.

There are wonderful museums with lots of photographs of 1920's musicals.