Not content to have the audience in the palm of his hand; he goes one further and clinches his fist. - Kenneth Tynan

The man who reacts to the universe with a cry of impotent anguish is acceptable as an artist only if he can persuade us that he has sanely considered the other possible reactions and found them inadequate.

People have always needed art: but why have they needed it? And what shaped the forms by which they satisfied their need? … In the arts form tends to be conservative, and content to be revolutionary; it is novelty of content that precedes, demands and imposes novelty of form.

What, when drunk, one sees in other women, one sees in Garbo sober.