“It only becomes art if it touches other people.”
“For most people, art is only valuable if other people say it is; and artists are only worthwhile if they are either rich and famous, or dead.”
“An editorial in the Los Angeles Times [1923] wistfully asked, 'Will eating chestnuts by crackling log fires become one of the lost arts preserved by a devoted people only in poetry and romance?”
“it is only when you have mastered the art of loving yourself that you can truly love others. it's only when you have opened your own heart that you can touch the hearts of others. when you feel centered and alive, you are in much better position to be a better person.”
“Only parts of us will ever touch only parts of others.”
“Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.”