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

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

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.

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

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

Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.

Artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs.

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.

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

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

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

Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.

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.

I think another thing is that we don't really want exclusivity. We accept that it is in the artist's interest to be on sale in every place where they sell music.

An artist's duty is rather to stay open-minded and in a state where he can receive information and inspiration. You always have to be ready for that little artistic Epiphany.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

I accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it accepts me.

The earth has music for those who listen.

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.

Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo.