If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators.
I don't watch it, but I know enough to comment on it.
'No comment' is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again.
A dramatist is one who believes that the pure event, an action involving human beings, is more arresting than any comment that can be made upon it.
My entire soul is a cry, and all my work is a commentary on that cry.
Let's give the conventions back to the politicians. If we think there's any news, we can tack it on afterward as commentary. But the conventions should be their show, not ours.
When a thing is said to be not worth refuting you may be sure that either it is flagrantly stupid - in which case all comment is superfluous - or it is something formidable, the very crux of the problem.
Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an artist is touched by some social condition, what the artist creates will reflect that, but you can't force it.
Congress will pass a law restricting public comment on the Internet to individuals who have spent a minimum of one hour actually accomplishing a specific task while on line.
Never comment on a woman's rear end. Never use the words 'large' or 'size' with 'rear end.' Never. Avoid the area altogether. Trust me.
Never make negative comments or spread rumors about anyone. It depreciates their reputation and yours.
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting.
Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.
The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means.
One of the sad commentaries on the way women are viewed in our society is that we have to fit one category. I have never felt that I had to be in one category.