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

The music industry can make you feel like a prostitute.

Music with dinner is an insult, both to the cook and the violinist.

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

I have a genuine love affair with my audience. When I`m on stage they`re not privileged to see me. It`s a privilege for me to 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.

Artistic talent is a gift from God and whoever discovers it in himself has a certain obligation: to know that he cannot waste this talent, but must develop it.

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

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

Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.

Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.

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

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 magic delivered from the lie of being truth.

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

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

Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.

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.

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

Let silence be the art you practice.