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

Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?

The only escape from the miseries of life are music and cats...

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.

Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.

Let silence be the art you practice.

It's so sweet, I feel like my teeth are rotting when I listen to the radio.

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.

A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation.

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

Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.

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.

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.

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

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.

The true art of memory is the art of attention.

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

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

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