Rock and roll music, if you like it, if you feel it, you can't help but move to it. That's what happens to me. I can't help it.

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

Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.

Music is mediator between spiritual and sensual life.

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

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

Artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs.

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

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

You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.

A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.

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

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

One thing that really appeals to me is this idea of music being a living thing that has an evolution that, in a way, enables the artist to sell a process rather than a piece of product.

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

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

The spoken form is in fact a very restrained representation of what is possible in the musical language.

Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.

Music should be something that makes you gotta move, inside or outside

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.

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.