Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.

Art is the objectification of feeling.

There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit.

The beginning of a friendship, the fact that two people out of the thousands around them can meet and connect and become friends, seems like a kind of magic to me. But maintaining a friendship requires work. I don't mean that as a bad thing. Good art requires work as well.

The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.

Art is the collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.

The art of creation is older than the art of killing.