The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.

The Louvre is a morgue; you go there to identify your friends.

I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.

Be yourself. The world worships the original.

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.

Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.

Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.

The composer opens the cage door for arithmetic, the draftsman gives geometry its freedom.

Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.

Nothing ever gets anywhere. The earth keeps turning round and gets nowhere. The moment is the only thing that counts.

Sales of George Orwell's 1984 have skyrocketed. It's true. So the fallout from the (NSA spying) scandal is worse than we thought. It's forcing Americans to read.

A lot of disappointed people have been left standing on the street corner waiting for the bus marked Perfection.

Unless the story line carries the scenes, the scenes don't really mean anything.

Baseball ought never be hurried. It is the only unhurried institution we have left, which is one reason, I think, we love it.

Iraq may not be the war on terror itself, but it is critical to the outcome of the war on terror, and therefore any advance in Iraq is an advance forward in that.

Pride of the dewy morning, The swain's experienced eye From thee takes timely warning. Nor trusts the gorgeous sky.

You can only be funny if you have matters of great importance on your mind.

If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could to-day.

I think I have a basic sound aesthetic that is in most of what I do

The relationship between press and politician - protected by the Constitution and designed to be happily adversarial - becomes sour, raw and confrontational.