The earth has music for those who listen.

I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.

Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.

Artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs.

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland.

I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.

Let silence be the art you practice.

Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him.

The spoken form is in fact a very restrained representation of what is possible in the musical language.

Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.

Each song is a child I nourish and give my love to. But even if you have never written a song, your life is a song. How can it not be?

Being a celebrity has taught me to hide, but being an actor has opened my soul.

I accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it accepts me.

Music should be something that makes you gotta move, inside or outside

The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

We all know that art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.

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

Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance.

Real popular culture is folk art - coalminers' songs and so forth.