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

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.

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

Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.

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.

The music industry can make you feel like a prostitute.

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

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

One thing that really appeals to me is this idea of music being a living thing that has an evolution that, in a way, enables the artist to sell a process rather than a piece of product.

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

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

Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time

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

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

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

Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.

The earth has music for those who listen.

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

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

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

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