Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.
And, in the end The love you take is equal to the love you make.
I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
Critics are the men who have failed in literature and art.
When you were young, and your heart, was an open book. You used to say, live and let live.
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Art not only imitates nature, but also completes its deficiencies.
Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.
Music can change the world because it can change people.
The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.
The spoken form is in fact a very restrained representation of what is possible in the musical language.
One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.
The earth has music for those who listen.
The absence of limitations is the enemy of art.
Being a celebrity has taught me to hide, but being an actor has opened my soul.
You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.
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.
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
We all know that art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.
Real popular culture is folk art - coalminers' songs and so forth.
The music industry can make you feel like a prostitute.