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

Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.

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

Music can change the world because it can change people.

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

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.

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

Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time

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

Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.

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

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.

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

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

Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.

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

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

Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.

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

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

Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?