Like books, artists have their fates.

What do we expect from criticism? People appear to want it, but why?

A great artist is never a closed subject, but this catalogue is a milestone production, as useful as it is beautiful.

Some critics claim to know what art has to be and do, and consider it their task to steer art along the path they have chosen. Others receive art gladly, and try to distinguish degrees of excellence.

I do not, " I felt oddly appalled by her statement. "I'm an excellent liar. Ask my dentist. He swears I floss regularly.

America allows us to be able to dream, then gives us the ability to achieve those dreams.

Originality, then, ultimately distinguishes art from craft. We may say, therefore, that it is the yardstick of artistic greatness or importance.

You can dance anywhere and you can dance in your mind, in your heart.

... the real heroes of race and culture would always be the people who stepped out of their own line to make a larger circle.

I think that I am a pornographer, meaning that I make movies based on what excites me and what I would like to see.

Not eating meat really keeps me trim....meat, and what's usually served with it, is a big calorie packer.

Promises were like bad checks, easy to write and hard to cash.

There's no lack of void.

To be an artist is to fail, as no other dare fail, that failure is his world and the shrink from desertion, art and craft, good housekeeping, living.