People ask me how I make music. I tell them I just step into it. It's like stepping into a river and joining the flow. Every moment in the river has its song.

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

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

The absence of limitations is the enemy of art.

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

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

A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.

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

I'm very happy to hear that my work inspires writers and painters. It's the most beautiful compliment, the greatest reward. Art should always be an exchange.

The earth has music for those who listen.

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

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

Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.

Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.

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

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

Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.

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.

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

To play without passion is inexcusable!

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