Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.

I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.

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

Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.

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

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

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.

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

Once you become predictable, no one's interested anymore.

If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.

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.

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

Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo.

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

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

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

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

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

I think another thing is that we don't really want exclusivity. We accept that it is in the artist's interest to be on sale in every place where they sell music.

Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.

Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.