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

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

Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.

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

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

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

Critics are the men who have failed in literature and art.

The true art of memory is the art of attention.

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

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

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

I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.

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.

Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.

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

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

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

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.

Art is never finished, only abandoned.