Art(212)

"Writing is like walking in a deserted street. Out of the dust in the street you make a mud pie."
John LeCarre

"When I was a little kid, I took tap and ballet. I've always loved to dance. I'm a rhythm machine."
Tommy Lee

"The fact that writers will go through so much to remain writers says something, perhaps everything. It would be far easier (and nearly always more profitable) to become a real estate agent."
Maria Lenhart

"You can't start at the top."
Elmer G. Letterman

"I'm a study of a man in chaos in search of frenzy."
Oscar Levant

"Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you'll find the real tinsel underneath."
Oscar Levant

"I don't have big anxieties. I wish I did. I'd be much more interesting."
Roy Lichtenstein

"I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me."
Roy Lichtenstein

"The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress."
Hendrik Willem Van Loon

"Somewhere in the world there is an epigram for every dilemma."
Hendrik Willem Van Loon