Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.

What matters poverty? What matters anything to him who is enamoured of our art? Does he not carry in himself every joy and every beauty?

Film is a very young art that is still evolving. Soon, we shall reach a balance between content and technology.

All I owe the world is my art.

Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it.

Aesthetic emotion puts man in a state favorable to the reception of erotic emotion. Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer art.

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.

I'm not dead and I don't have blue hair but some people say there are similarities. It is usually intolerable to watch myself onscreen but this time it's fine. I think it's beautiful and a real work of art.

More than art, more than literature, music is universally accessible.