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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.

Comedy is the blues for people who can?t sing.

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

Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.

And I'll stand on the ocean until I start sinking.

Let silence be the art you practice.

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.

Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.

We all know that art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.

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

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

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