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

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

I have a genuine love affair with my audience. When I`m on stage they`re not privileged to see me. It`s a privilege for me to see them.

Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time

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

The absence of limitations is the enemy of art.

Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.

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

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

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

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

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

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

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.

Artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs.

The music industry can make you feel like a prostitute.

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

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

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

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.

Being a celebrity has taught me to hide, but being an actor has opened my soul.