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

The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

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

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

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

Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.

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

I think another thing is that we don't really want exclusivity. We accept that it is in the artist's interest to be on sale in every place where they sell music.

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

Real popular culture is folk art - coalminers' songs and so forth.

Critics are the men who have failed in literature and art.

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

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

If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.

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.

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

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.

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

I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.

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

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