“An artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs.”

“The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.”

“If you don't get noticed, you don't have anything. You just have to be noticed, but the art is in getting noticed naturally, without screaming or without tricks.”

“I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!”

“History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed art has remembered the people, because they created.”

“Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor.”

“Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all the tricks and has nothing to say.”

“To be honest, I sort of feel like 'movie actor' isn't of this time. I love it. But it's a 20th-century art form.”

“Outside museums, in noisy public squares, people look at people. Inside museums, we leave that realm and enter what might be called the group-mind, getting quiet to look at art.”