The hardest of all the arts to speak of is music, because music has no meaning to speak of
Art means to dare - and to have been right.
Nothing is a waste that makes a memory.
Artists, by definition innocent, don't steal. But they do borrow without giving back.
Art's the biggest vanity: the assumption that one's view of peace or fright or beauty is permanently communicable.
It's not evil that's ruining the earth, but mediocrity. The crime is not that Nero played while Rome burned, but that he played badly.