There are some centuries which - apart from everything else - in the art and other disciplines presume to remake everything because they know how to make nothing.

This new art made a deep impression on me, and I began to study it ardently.

I spend my time trying to figure art out. I was brought up to believe that the way one processes information is by making it into art. That's how I live my life.

I like music because it's the only invisible art form.

Making films is great. You've got 100 people around and you're all dressing up and making weird art-it's a fun group activity.

If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it.

When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony.

I like the fact that in ancient Chinese art the great painters always included a deliberate flaw in their work: human creation is never perfect.

What does that represent? There was never any question in plastic art, in poetry, in music, of representing anything. It is a matter of making something beautiful, moving, or dramatic - this is by no means the same thing.

Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

There is tragic evidence to show that the paintings at the French prehistoric art sites are deteriorating.

Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art - or almost the only stuff.

The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.

Oh literature, oh the glorious Art, how it preys upon the marrow in our bones. It scoops the stuffing out of us, and chucks us aside. Alas!

I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.