A mistake in judgment isn't fatal, but too much anxiety about judgment is.

It seems likely that many of the young who don't wait for others to call them artists, but simply announce that they are, don't have the patience to make art.

Her only flair is in her nostrils.

a steady diet of mass culture is a form of deprivation.

It's sometimes discouraging to see all of a director's movies, because there's so much repetition. The auteurists took this to be a sign of a director's artistry, that you could recognize his movies. But it can also be a sign that he's a hack.

In the arts, the critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising.

Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.