Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.

You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.

Rock and roll music, if you like it, if you feel it, you can't help but move to it. That's what happens to me. I can't help it.

Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.

The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.

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

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

The music industry can make you feel like a prostitute.

And, in the end The love you take is equal to the love you make.

Music is mediator between spiritual and sensual life.

Artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs.

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

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

Let silence be the art you practice.

The true art of memory is the art of attention.

Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.

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

Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.

We're not trying to change the world; just music.

Art not only imitates nature, but also completes its deficiencies.