Artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs.

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

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

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

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

Once you become predictable, no one's interested anymore.

I accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it accepts me.

I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland.

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

I love rock-n-roll. I think it's an exciting art form. It's revolutionary. Still revolutionary and it changed people. It changed their hearts. But yeah, even rock-n-roll has a lot of rubbish, really bad music.

Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.

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

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

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

When you were young, and your heart, was an open book. You used to say, live and let live.

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

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

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

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.

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

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