Sing what I want to sing. Be how I want to be. Reach as big an audience as I can. Isn’t that what art is meant to do?
You’re so ugly you could be a modern art masterpiece![to Private Pyle]
You’re serving. You’re not a servant. Serving is a supreme art. God is the first servant. God serves men but he’s not a servant to men.
The art of survival, is a story that never ends.
Family, art. It will tear you in two.[to Sammy]
Great works of art can never belong to any one individual, at least not in spirit.
Artists use lies to tell the truth, while politicians use them to cover the truth up.[quoting her father]
Art and love, that’s what makes the life worth living.
Your songs are like an oil painting at the dentist’s office.[to Joan]
We’re junkies, and art is our drug.[to Sammy]
Sticking your head in the mouths of lions was balls. Making sure the lion don’t eat my head, that is art.[Sammy Fabelman: Putting your head in a lion’s mouth is art?]
Never buy good pictures. Buy masterpieces.