Let silence be the art you practice.

Rhythm is something you either have or don't have, but when you have it, you have it all over.

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

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

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

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

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

Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.

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

Singers come and go, but if you're a good actor, you can last a long time

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

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

The true art of memory is the art of attention.

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

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

Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.

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

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

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.

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