My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

Oh! this opponent this collaborator against your will whose notion of beauty always differs from yours and whose means are often too limited for active assistance to your intentions!

We also maintain - again with perfect truth - that mystery is more than half of beauty the element of strangeness that stirs the senses through the imagination.

And I think of that again as I've written in several of my beauty books a lot of health comes from the proper eating habits which are something that - you know I come from a generation that wasn't - didn't have a lot of food.

Thankfully beauty is easier to remove than apply and a swipe of demaquillage in the right direction and you are you once again.

Obscenity which is ever blasphemy against the divine beauty in life is a monster for which the corruption of society forever brings forth new food which it devours in secret.

The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty even one's own even more one's own for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being.

Beauty is our weapon against nature by it we make objects giving them limit symmetry proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.

My agent says that I'm a 'repeat business guy.' If you hire me to come do a movie I'll be on time know all my material be ready to go have a good attitude. I'm here to work so I get hired over and over again by the same producers. If you just be a team player on set you can work so much more often.

Regardless of what one's attitude towards prohibition may be temperance is something against which at a time of war no reasonable protest can be made.

Becoming an author changes your attitude too. Once you see where books come from and how they're made they never seem quite as sacred again.

Like success failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude failure is a learning experience a rung on the ladder a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.

Every man should follow the bent of his nature in art and letters always provided that he does not offend against the rules of morality and good taste.

Out with stereotypes feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west's stunning sexual personae the vehicles of art's assault against nature. The moment there is imagination there is myth.

If the Frieze Art Fair catches on I imagine at least two great things happening. First we will once again have a huge art fair in town that isn't too annoying to go to. More importantly Frieze may finally show New Yorkers that we can cross our own waters for visual culture. That would change everything.

It's art that pushes against psychological and social expectations that tries to transform decay into something generative that is replicative in a baroque way that isn't about progress and wants to - as Walt Whitman put it - 'contain multitudes.'

Art is changing. Again. Here. Now. Opportunities to witness this are rare so attend and observe.

Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn't exist yet but soon will and will change everything for everybody and nothing will ever be the same again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world you are writing science fiction. It is always the art of the possible never the impossible.

To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.

Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art after all but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?

Be true to yourself help others make each day your masterpiece make friendship a fine art drink deeply from good books - especially the Bible build a shelter against a rainy day give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day.

Art is a revolt against fate. All art is a revolt against man's fate.

I like things that are kind of eclectic when one thing doesn't go with another. That's why I love Rome. The town itself is that way. It's where Fascist architecture meets classic Renaissance where the ancient bangs up against the contemporary. It has a touch of everything. That's my style and that's what my work is about.