If you were immortal, how would you know?
May 042016
If you were immortal, how would you know?
To make a new mistake is no small thing.
To sculpt a lion, carve away whatever doesn’t look like a lion; and to be happy, avoid whatever makes you unhappy.
You can talk people into art, but you can’t talk them out of it.
A civilized man need not know a little about everything, but he must know a lot about something.
Never call someone a pseudo-intellectual unless you are sure that you would recognize a real one.
I often need to hear what I say to know what I think.
America is a deeply religious country, imbued not with Christianity but self-help.
The audience will always be out of step with the artist, for one is just arriving at what the other has long since put out of mind.
People will like you if you like them, which is too high a price.