Art

“My music has always been a reflection of where I'm at in my life.”

“A picture should end as it has to.”

“Music is about the sound you invent.”

“The subject is too often treated as a fine art, delicately wrapped in mumbo-jumbo.”

“I always want the camera to be someone.”

“Кожен мій твір, татку, породжує у мені болісно-солодкий дрож, який збагачує моє духовне життя. Без нього в душі була б цілковита порожнеча. Той дрож робить серце здатним чинити на світі добро.”

“What we need is an open climate within our institutions to allow artists to practise their art.”

“We no longer believe in the eye: we are subordinating the eye to the sense of touch.”

“I need my painting to be a dramatic echo of the moment I live in.”

“I’m interested in revelation, in what will be revealed through the poem, through me — not what I have to reveal, but what it has to reveal.”

“I don't act, I relive.”

“The best is none too good for the public that pays to hear a singer.”

“At this age, my challenge is doing the best show I can.”

“I steal from every movie ever made.”

“I don’t sit down and write. That’s never been my style.”

“I found it impossible to write in the stanza form.”

“It’s the blues.”

““I suppose that every author’s ambition is to get his play produced before a London audience... It has been mine, and I have achieved it.””