“The science of psychotherapy is knowing what to say, the art is knowing when to say it. (36)”
“Men say they know many things;But lo! they have taken wings, —The arts and sciences,And a thousand appliances;The wind that blowsIs all that any body knows”
“I don’t listen to what art critics say. I don’t know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.”
“When someone between twenty and forty says, apropos of a work of art, 'I know what I like,' he is really saying 'I have no taste of my own but accept the taste of my cultural milieu.”
“Nature is what we know / Yet have not art to say / So impotent our wisdom is / To her simplicity.”
“When Americans say it was great, I know it was good. When they say it was good, I know it was okay. When they say it was okay, I know it was bad.”