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

Music is a safe type of high. It's more the way it was supposed to be. That's where highness came, I guess, from anyway. It's nothing but rhythm and motion.

Music makes me high on stage, and that's the truth. It's like being almost addicted to music.

My goal is to be one with the music. I just dedicate my whole life to this art.

I like things that are fun, and I look to do them a lot, and that I have the opportunities to do them makes me a lucky guy.

Life is a song, sing it.

With color one obtains an energy that seems to stem from witchcraft.

What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter - a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue.

It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else.

An artist must never be a prisoner. Prisoner? An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, prisoner of style, prisoner of reputation, prisoner of success, etc.

A picture must possess a real power to generate light and for a long time now I've been conscious of expressing myself through light or rather in light.

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.

Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.

For me, poetry is a situation - a state of being, a way of facing life and facing history.

I read a poem every night, as others read a prayer.

Poetry is not only a set of words which are chosen to relate to each other; it is something which goes much further than that to provide a glimpse of our vision of the world.

A great artist is always before his time or behind it.

I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.

Art is the only place you can do what you like. That's freedom.

A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.

It is looking at things for a long time that ripens you and gives you a deeper understanding.

Art is like reading a good book, only you decide how it is going to end.

Art is not just ornamental, an enhancement of life. It is a path in itself, a way out of the predictable and conventional... a map to self discovery.

Every creative act involves a new innocence of perception, liberated from the cataract of accepted belief.

If the body can respond decisively to music, it must in some sense be music.

If you are seeking creative ideas, go out walking. Angels whisper to you when you go for a walk.

Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.

In art, as in life, everything is possible so long as it is based on love.

Only when he no longer knows what he is doing the painter do good things.

Be sure your pen of actions is drawing a work of art

We must use time creatively.

The great majority of artists are throwing themselves in with life-preservers around their necks, and more often than not it is the life-preserver which sinks them.

To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.

What is art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.

I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they're good or there because they're lucky.

I believe art has to take responsibility but it should not give up being art.

Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.

Art is not a thing; it is a way.

The craft can come once you get an interest in poetry, but I was trying to show kids it is a vital form and can be really captivating and intrigue you.

There are two reasons you can have this job. One is because you wanna be famous and the other is because you like the craft.

Writing is a really good first step toward that goal of knowing yourself.

We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.

Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.

I don't do drugs. I am drugs.

I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.

I believe that the moment is near when by a procedure of active paranoiac thought, it will be possible to systematize confusion and contribute to the total discrediting of the world of reality.

Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.

Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali.