I choose films for their artistic value. I don't need a mansion or a Jaguar. When I leave this Earth, I won't take any money with me. All I will leave behind will be my art.

Alchemy is the art of far and near, and I think poetry is alchemy in that way. It's delightful to distort size, to see something that's tiny as though it were vast.

Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.

The idea of avant-garde art is a very suspicious thing to me, the idea that poetry is new and it keeps being new the way Chevrolets every year are new.

Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.

Rock isn't art, it's the way ordinary people talk.

Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art.

Book-jacket design may become a lost art, like album-cover design, without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized.

Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.