Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.
Art is never finished, only abandoned.
Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
Let silence be the art you practice.
What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.
Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.
Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo.
Singers come and go, but if you're a good actor, you can last a long time
The true art of memory is the art of attention.
Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time
I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland.
Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.
The earth has music for those who listen.
Music should be something that makes you gotta move, inside or outside
Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.
Critics are the men who have failed in literature and art.
When you were young, and your heart, was an open book. You used to say, live and let live.
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?