The true art of memory is the art of attention.
And, in the end The love you take is equal to the love you make.
Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.
Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.
Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.
People ask me how I make music. I tell them I just step into it. It's like stepping into a river and joining the flow. Every moment in the river has its song.
Music can change the world because it can change people.
Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.
The earth has music for those who listen.
I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
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.
To play without passion is inexcusable!
Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
Music is mediator between spiritual and sensual life.
And I'll stand on the ocean until I start sinking.
The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.
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.
The absence of limitations is the enemy of art.
Artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs.
Art is never finished, only abandoned.
