Virgil Thomson

"I don't go around regretting things that don't happen."

Louisa May Alcott

"Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know."

Fran Lebowitz

"My favorite animal is steak."

Nathaniel Hawthorne

"Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers."

Alfred Hitchcock

"Always make the audience suffer as much as possible."

Pietro Aretino

"I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself."

Pablo Picasso

"I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it."

Ansel Adams

"Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs."