art quotes

Would it help if I got out and pushed?
-- Princess Leia Organa

There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows
what they are.
-- Somerset Maugham

Ten years of rejection slips is nature's way of telling you to stop writing.
-- R. Geis

Television -- the longest amateur night in history.
-- Robert Carson

Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.
-- Laurie Anderson

Some performers on television appear to be horrible people, but when
you finally get to know them in person, they turn out to be even worse.
-- Avery

"She said, `I know you ... you cannot sing'. I said, `That's nothing,
you should hear me play piano.'"
-- Morrisey

Satire is what closes Saturday night.
-- George Kaufman

'Scuse me, while I kiss the sky!
-- Robert James Marshall (Jimi) Hendrix

Rascal, am I? Take THAT!
-- Errol Flynn

Public use of any portable music system is a virtually guaranteed indicator
of sociopathic tendencies.
-- Zoso

Producers seem to be so prejudiced against actors who've had no training.
And there's no reason for it. So what if I didn't attend the Royal Academy
for twelve years? I'm still a professional trying to be the best actress
I can. Why doesn't anyone send me the scripts that Faye Dunaway gets?
-- Farrah Fawcett-Majors

Plots are like girdles. Hidden, they hold your interest; revealed, they're
of no interest except to fetishists. Like girdles, they attempt to contain
an uncontainable experience.
-- R.S. Knapp

Plato, by the way, wanted to banish all poets from his proposed Utopia
because they were liars. The truth was that Plato knew philosophers
couldn't compete successfully with poets.
-- Kilgore Trout (Philip J. Farmer), "Venus on the Half Shell"

People in general do not willingly read if they have anything else to
amuse them.
-- S. Johnson

Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry without a certain
unsoundness of mind.
-- Thomas Macaulay

"Oh sure, this costume may look silly, but it lets me get in and out
of dangerous situations -- I work for a federal task force doing a survey on
urban crime. Look, here's my ID, and here's a number you can call, that will
put you through to our central base in Atlanta. Go ahead, call -- they'll
confirm who I am.
"Unless, of course, the Astro-Zombies have destroyed it."
-- Captain Freedom

Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
-- Tallulah Bankhead

No house should ever be on any hill or on anything. It should be of the hill,
belonging to it.
-- Frank Lloyd Wright

No poet or novelist wishes he was the only one who ever lived, but most of
them wish they were the only one alive, and quite a number fondly believe
their wish has been granted.
-- W.H. Auden, "The Dyer's Hand"