“Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.”

“Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split the possibilities to make good building art.”

“The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle.”

“I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.”

“Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?”

“It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.”

“What is art? Prostitution.”

“The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society.”

“Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.”