It's fun having songs about parties and gigolos, but I really wanted to use my music as a form of art. Art is supposed to spark conversation and make people think, and I wanted to do that with this song.

The art of politics is knowing what to do next.

A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.

A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.

Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.

Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.

I'm thinking to myself, I just love doing the art, it takes me a morning to do.

Art is not about thinking something up. It is the opposite - getting something down.

I don't need the money, dear. I work for art.

When we separate music from life we get art.

The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.

The history of art is the history of revivals.

The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.

The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money.

Life is not an exact science, it is an art.