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

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

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

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

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

Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.

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

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

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

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

A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation.

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

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

Rhythm is something you either have or don't have, but when you have it, you have it all over.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

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

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

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

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

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

The earth has music for those who listen.