If my books had been any worse I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been any better I should not have come.

This is a fault common to all singers, that among their friends they will never sing when they are asked; unasked, they will never desist.

Art imitates nature as well as it can, as a pupil follows his master; thus it is a sort of grandchild of God.

We possess art lest we perish of the truth.

The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal.