Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.

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

I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.

Real popular culture is folk art - coalminers' songs and so forth.

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

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.

The true art of memory is the art of attention.

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.