Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.

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

O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.

What I've discovered is that in art, as in music, there's a lot of truth-and then there's a lie. The artist is essentially creating his work to make this lie a truth, but he slides it in amongst all the others. The tiny little lie is the moment I live for, my moment. It's the moment that the audience falls in love.

Where thou art, that is home.