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

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

Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.

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

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

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

The earth has music for those who listen.

And I'll stand on the ocean until I start sinking.

Artistic talent is a gift from God and whoever discovers it in himself has a certain obligation: to know that he cannot waste this talent, but must develop it.

The spoken form is in fact a very restrained representation of what is possible in the musical language.

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.

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

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

I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland.

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

People ask me how I make music. I tell them I just step into it. It's like stepping into a river and joining the flow. Every moment in the river has its song.

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

Artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs.

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

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

Art is never finished, only abandoned.