Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.
Once you become predictable, no one's interested anymore.
Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.
The only escape from the miseries of life are music and cats...
Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him.
A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation.
We all know that art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.
Comedy is the blues for people who can?t sing.
The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.
Critics are the men who have failed in literature and art.
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.
Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance.
Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time
Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.
Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.
Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.
Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo.
The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.
Music should be something that makes you gotta move, inside or outside
Singers come and go, but if you're a good actor, you can last a long time
Art is never finished, only abandoned.