All bad art is the result of good intentions.

We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. A…

There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectat…

I believe that producing pictures, as I do, is almost solely a question of wanting so very much to do it well.

A great piece of music is beautiful regardless of how it is performed. Any prelude or fugue of Bach can be played at any tempo, with or without rhythmic nuance…

I'd rather write one good book than ten mediocre ones.