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An artist has every right – one may even say a duty – to exhibit his productions as prominently as he can.

Music is everybody’s possession. It’s only publishers who think that people own it.

Language is wine upon the lips.

It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.

In art the best is good enough.

What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.

Really I don’t like human nature unless all candied over with art.

Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.

The United States and Turkey are the only two countries that don’t have some kind of subsidy for the Arts. The whole culture in society has made certain films more acceptable. I turned down so many films in the ’60s and ’70s.