My philosophy? I'm always right and you are wrong.

After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed and mourning over tragedies that were not my own.

Two men look out a window. One sees mud, the other sees the stars.

Lord AUGUSTUS:(looking around) Time to educate yourself, I suppose. DUMBY: No, time to forget all I have learned. That is much more important.

No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists.

The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim.

I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art.