Art does not reproduce the visible; it makes visible.
Art does not reproduce what we see. It makes us see.
Art does not reproduce what is visible, it makes things visible.
Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding?
It takes a very long time to become young.
Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.
What advice do I tell my grandson? I listen to him.
A conductor should guide rather than command.
Composers should write tunes that chauffeurs and errand boys can whistle.
No operatic star has yet died soon enough for me.
I don't watch TV. I don't use a computer, a fax or a cellphone.
Tell your own story, and you will be interesting.
To be an artist, you need to exist in a world of silence.
Full, saturated colours have an emotional significance I want to avoid.
Whether it will convince or not, depends entirely on what it is in itself, what is there to be seen.
I guess I've always liked the idea of being an artist.
What the people are within, the buildings express without.
A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.
I have no idea what I'm doin'. I've never seen me.
Traveling these days has a lot of problems and also it wears you out more.
