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

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

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

Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.

Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.

Let silence be the art you practice.

Each song is a child I nourish and give my love to. But even if you have never written a song, your life is a song. How can it not be?

We all know that art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.

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

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.

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

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.

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

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.

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

It's so sweet, I feel like my teeth are rotting when I listen to the radio.

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

Music is mediator between spiritual and sensual life.

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

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

When you were young, and your heart, was an open book. You used to say, live and let live.