Artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs.

And, in the end The love you take is equal to the love you make.

Let silence be the art you practice.

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

The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

Play it fuckin' loud!

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

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

Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.

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

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

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

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

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.

Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.