Artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs.

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

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

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

People ask me how I make music. I tell them I just step into it. It's like stepping into a river and joining the flow. Every moment in the river has its song.

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

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

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.

Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.

The earth has music for those who listen.

Music is mediator between spiritual and sensual life.

Real popular culture is folk art - coalminers' songs and so forth.

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

We're not trying to change the world; just music.

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.

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

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

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

Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.