Christmas began in the heart of God. It is complete only when it reaches the heart of man.Why wait for a call when you have a command?

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt; perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.

A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop.

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt.

Confidence is the prize given to the mediocre

A Gustave Courbet portrait of a trout has more death in it than Rubens could get in a whole Crucifixion.

One gets tired of the role critics are supposed to have in this culture: It's like being the piano player in a whorehouse; you don't have any control over the action going on upstairs.

Why wait for a call when you have a command?

Political stress is always apt to shrink the private arena and attach it on to the public

Popular in our time, unpopular in his. So runs the stereotype of rejected genius.

It is the nature of carnivores to get power and then, having disposed of their enemies, to deploy the emollient powers of Great Art to make themselves look like herbivores.

No one could leave the group by his or her own volition and put the group at risk of having its secrets revealed.

To get over artist's block, make shitty art.

Because what’s worse than knowing you want something, besides knowing you can never have it?

In a pleasant spring morning all men's sins are forgiven.

The only reason I'm an actor is that a lady pulled out of a parking space in front of a producer's office.

Cleverness is a quality a man likes to have in his wife as long as she is some distance away from him. Up close, he'll take kindness any day of the week, if there's nothing more alluring to be had.

Every time I hit a shot, I feel like I am shaking hands with the flag stick.

The Democratic Party has become the party of Bernie Sanders, I mean they are the progressives. That's who control.

I remember as a child, my grandmother read to me Silent Spring. It was incomprehensible to me that there could be a world without birdsong.

Invention is the mother of necessity.