Money is not an aphrodisiac: the desire it may kindle in the female eye is more for the cash than the carrier.

A seventeenth-century painting can be "modern" because the living eye finds it fresh and new. A "modern" painting can be outdated because it was a product of the moment and not of time.

Artists never make wars. They are too busy making life out of the matter of their visions.

Lie down and listen to the crabgrass grow.

flirtation ... is a graceful salute to sex, a small impermanent spark between one human being and another, between a man and a woman not in need of fire.

It is television's primary damage that it provides ten million children with the same fantasy, ready-made and on a platter.

I don't think the advertisers have any real idea of their power not only to reflect but to mould society.