If my books had been any worse I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been any better I should not have come.

If a king loves music, there is little wrong in the land.

I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do—that was one of my favorite things about it—and when I first did it, I felt perverse.

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

Modesty is a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.