Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.

What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.

I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.

Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.

Music is mediator between spiritual and sensual life.

The absence of limitations is the enemy of art.

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

Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.

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

Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.

If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.

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

Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.

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

Once you become predictable, no one's interested anymore.

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

Comedy is the blues for people who can?t sing.

Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo.

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

I love rock-n-roll. I think it's an exciting art form. It's revolutionary. Still revolutionary and it changed people. It changed their hearts. But yeah, even rock-n-roll has a lot of rubbish, really bad music.