No sane man will dance. The difference between fiction and reality is that fiction has to make sense. Tom Clancy Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life. It is not necessary for the public to know whether I am joking or whether I am serious, just as it is not necessary for me to know it myself. Salvador Dal Art is anything you can get away with.
Some editors are failed writers, but then, so are most writers.
A man is a critic when he cannot be an artist, in the same way that a man becomes an informer when he cannot be a soldier. In a painting I want to say something comforting. Samuel Goldwyn A painting in a museum probably hears more foolish remarks than anything else in the world. These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves. In a love affair, I wish to be the hero, with no audience present.