What's left is a cultural economy where only the privileged can afford to create, and where only immediately profitable art survives.

The erosion of funding for seed and grassroots spaces is part of a wider liberal tendency to strip away the socially democratic infrastructure that actually makes art possible.

The real art is knowing what to leave out, not what to put in.

Sound has spoiled the most ancient of the world's arts, the art of pantomime, and has canceled out the great beauty that is silence.

I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can't help it. It's the truth.

[Talkies] are spoiling the oldest art in the world - the art of pantomime. They are ruining the great beauty of silence.