I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation.
Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?
It's so sweet, I feel like my teeth are rotting when I listen to the radio.
Art is never finished, only abandoned.
Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.
Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo.
Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
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.
Music should be something that makes you gotta move, inside or outside
I have a genuine love affair with my audience. When I`m on stage they`re not privileged to see me. It`s a privilege for me to see them.
Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.
The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.
Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.
Being a celebrity has taught me to hide, but being an actor has opened my soul.
Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.
Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.
Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.
Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.
Music can change the world because it can change people.
The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.