All great art is born of the metropolis.

Take the serious side of Disney, the Confucian side of Disney. It's in having taken an ethoswhere you have the values of courage and tenderness asserted in a way that everybody can understand. You have got an absolute genius there. You have got a greater correlation of nature than you have had since the time of Alexander the Great.

Allow me to say that I would long since have committed suicide had desisting made me a professor of Latin.

The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.

Good art however 'immoral' is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.

The only history that matters is the history we know.

No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.