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

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

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

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

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.

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

The only escape from the miseries of life are music and cats...

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

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

To play without passion is inexcusable!

Rock and roll music, if you like it, if you feel it, you can't help but move to it. That's what happens to me. I can't help it.

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.

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

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

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

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

Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?

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

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

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