Creation exists only in the unforeseen made necessary.

Music is a labyrinth with no beginning and no end, full of new paths to discover, where mystery remains eternal

Any musician who has not experienced - I do not say understood, but truly experienced - the necessity of dodecaphonic music is USELESS. For his whole work is irrelevant to the needs of his epoch.

It is not enough to deface the Mona Lisa because that does not kill the Mona Lisa. All art of the past must be destroyed.

For me, curiosity is life. If you are not curious, you are in your coffin.

More and more I find that in order to create effectively one has to consider delirium and, yes, organize it.

The aim of music is not to express feelings but to express music.

Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous.

I suggested that it was not enough to add a moustache to the Mona Lisa: it should simply be destroyed.

We have to fight the past to survive.

All art of the past must be destroyed.

To celebrate man is to celebrate God

If I am sufficiently brave to extract the cancer of fear, I have effectively gutted my conviction that what stands before me is impossible.

No man is a man until he has been a soldier.

He was so lonely that he laughed at himself.

Marriage has made me safer.

Maybe-- maybe love makes you suspicious and doubting. Is it true that when you love a woman you are never sure-- never sure of her because you aren't sure of yourself?

I encouraged the cast to make up their own lines.

The Pig, if I am not mistaken, Supplies us sausage, ham, and Bacon. Let others say his heart is big, I think it stupid of the Pig.

I have to say I've been pretty lucky in that my French fry indulgences don't really affect my skin. I keep a stable routine.

At one point in my practice, of the 10 largest home builders in the United States, seven of the 10 were my clients.