Quotes to inspire and reflect

If it's a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear idea of what was going on.

I used to think as I looked at the Hollywood night, ‘there must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me, dreaming of becoming a movie star’. But I'm not going to worry about them. I'm dreaming the hardest.

To grasp and hold a vision, that is the very essence of successful leadership - not only on the movie set where I learned it, but everywhere.

When I was a kid, if a guy got killed in a western movie I always wondered who got his horse.

Life exists for the love of music or beautiful things.

I despise a world which does not feel that music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul.

Music is the harmonious voice of creation; an echo of the invisible world.

Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.

In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Dancing: The vertical expression of a horizontal desire legalized by music.

I just can't listen to any more Wagner, you know...I'm starting to get the urge to conquer Poland.

Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.

If one hears bad music it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation.

Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.

The only truth is music.

The appetite may sicken, and so die.

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

Music is the Voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.

I am sure I know of no agony comparable to the listening to an unfamiliar opera.

The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.

Opera in English, is about as sensible as baseball in Italian.

No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.

People are wrong when they say opera is not what it used to be. It is what it used to be. That is what's wrong with it.

The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?

In art the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can inspire.

Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.

As far as I am concerned, a painting speaks for itself. What is the use of giving explanations, when all is said and done? A painter has only one language.

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

Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.

To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim.

It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.

Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.

I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Art is not a thing; it is a way.

Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.

Love the art in yourself, not yourself in the art.

Good Artists copy, great artists steal.

If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud.

The English public, as a mass, takes no interest in a work of art until it is told that the work in question is immoral.

Everything you can imagine is real.

Time has convinced me of one thing: Television is for appearing on--not for looking at.

The only reason I made a commercial for American Express was to pay my American Express bill.

Disney has the best casting. If he doesn't like an actor he just tears him up.

When they asked Jack Benny to do something for the Actor's Orphanage - he shot both his parents and moved in.