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

Music is mediator between spiritual and sensual life.

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

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

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

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

Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.

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

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

Music can change the world because it can change people.

The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

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

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

Artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs.