A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read. -Mark Twain

A critic is a legless man who teaches running. -Anonymous 

A word is dead when it is said, some say, I say it just begins to live that day. -Emily Dickinson 

Acting is not being emotional, but being able to express emotion. -Kate Reid 

Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before. -Edith Warton 

Art is a collaboration between God an the artist, and the less the artist does the better. -Andre Gide 

Art is either plagiarism or revolution. -Paul Guaguin 

Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced. -Leo Tolstoy 

Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs. -Christopher Hampton 

Asparagus inspires gentle thoughts. -Charles Lamb 

Be not a slave of words. -Thomas Carlyle 

But that's what being an artist is -- feeling crummy before everyone else feels crummy. -The New Yorker 

Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theater. -Roman Polanski 

Colorless green ideas sleep furiously. -Noam Chomsky 

Disco is to music what Etch-A-Sketch is to art. -Anonymous 

Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model. -Vincent van Gogh 

Do you spell it with a "V" or a "W"?' inquired the judge. 'That depends upon the taste and fancy of the speller, my Lord'.... -Charles Dickens 

Don't play the saxophone. Let it play you. -Charlie Parker 

Drama is life with the dull bits cut out. -Alfred Hitchcock 

Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing. -Anonymous 

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. -Henry Ward Beecher 

Exuberance is beauty. -William Blake 

Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters; united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of marvels. -Goya 

Fiction is the truth inside the lie. -Stephen King 

For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation. -Goethe 

Games lubricate the body and the mind. -Benjamin Franklin 

He makes a swan-like end, fading in music. -William Shakespeare, 'Merchant of Venice' 

He tosses aside his paint-pots and his words a foot and a half long. -Horace 

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. -Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965) 

How often misused words generate misleading thoughts. -Herbert Spencer 

I come like Water, and like Wind I go. -Edward Fitzgerald 

I do most of my work sitting down; that's where I shine. -Robert Benchley

I had always loved beautiful and artistic things, though before leaving America I had had a very little chance of seeing any. -Emma Albani 

I have completed a monument more lasting than brass. -Horace 

I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best. -Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) 

I live on good soup, not on fine words. -Moliere 

I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time. -Orson Welles 

I see music as the augmentation of a split second of time. -Erin Cleary 

I see the whole design. -Elizabeth Barret Browning