Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter’s honor.

There are a whole bunch of roles where people say, ‚Oh, you’re playing yourself.‘ I guess it’s kind of a compliment. Or people say, ‚Oh, man, you just roll out of bed and do that.‘ The work is to make it look effortless. That’s the hard part.

If you can feel that Mother Earth is in you, and you are Mother Earth, then you are not any longer afraid to die because the earth is not dying. Like a wave appears and disappears and appears again.

If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.

It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself.

In art, at a certain level, there is no ‚better than.‘ It’s just about trying to operate for yourself on the most supreme level, artistically, that you can and hoping that people get it. Trusting that, just because of the way people are built and how interconnected we are, greatness will translate and symmetry will be recognised.

If you like a person you say ‚let’s go into business together.‘ Man is a social animal after all, but such partnerships are fraught with danger.

Well, Art is Art, isn’t it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know.

The art which we may call generally art of the wayside, as opposed to that which is the business of men’s lives, is, in the best sense of the word, Grotesque.

Whatever I am, it’s natural… I don’t have to pretend to be aggressive, don’t have to show the opposition that I am on the field. Being aggressive comes naturally to me, helps me perform.

All art is quite useless.

Art is the proper task of life.

No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place.

I am Warhol. I am the No. 1 most impactful artist of our generation. I am Shakespeare in the flesh.

Mine is only one of the millions of hearts broken over the death of Whitney Houston, I will always be grateful and in awe of the wonderful performance she did on my song, and I can truly say from the bottom of my heart, ‚Whitney, I will always love you. You will be missed.‘

Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.

Millions of people die every day. Everyone’s got to go sometime.

In Buddhism, we talk of meditation as an act of awakening, to be awake to the fact that the earth is in danger and living species are in danger.

The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns.

Nothing in life is promised except death.

Music helps me tell my story. That’s where I can really be heard. But there’s so much focus on the things that aren’t music.

Art’s everything we hope life would be, a lot of times.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.

As an artist your first loyalty is to your art. Unless this is the case, you’re going to be a second-rate artist.

It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.

For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.

Never give in – never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense.

I believe the right question to ask, respecting all ornament, is simply this; was it done with enjoyment, was the carver happy while he was about it?

I’m born with a pencil in my hand. I did lots of sketching.

Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.

My main focus is always to do well on the field for the Indian cricket team. When people say good things about me off the field, I am more than happy to accept them.

When the first big paycheque with ‚Dumb And Dumber‘ hit, I went: ‚Gosh, I wonder if this will affect my performance. Will I do a take and think, was that worth $7 million?‘ But that never happened. If anything, it made me rebel against that thing when people who get rich start playing it safe.

When I’m in the studio, I’m looking for creativity I haven’t matched yet, a feeling I haven’t felt. It’s a high.

Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.

The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honours.

Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?

It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.

In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

Death obsesses me, yes it does. I can’t really understand why it doesn’t obsess everyone – I think it does really, I’m just a little more out about it.

The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic.

Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn’t insanity. Surrealism to me is reality.

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

The only way to take sorrow out of death is to take love out of life.

The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.

It’s not that I’m afraid to die. I just don’t want to be there when it happens.

Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.

Homeland or death! Socialism or death! We shall overcome!

I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.

Dancers are always striving for perfection. A great dancer never achieves it: you always want to do another turn, a higher jump,a more difficult acrobatic jump.

Art is going to make a bigger comeback than ever. That’s the upside to things getting challenging.

I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

Bad people are, from the point of view of art, fascinating studies. They represent colour, variety and strangeness. Good people exasperate one’s reason; bad people stir one’s imagination.

I went on all over the States, ranting poems to enthusiastic audiences that, the week before, had been equally enthusiastic about lectures on Railway Development or the Modern Turkish Essay.

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

Painting, I think it’s like jazz.

Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image.

It’s what counts, isn’t it, on the Sunday, rather than pre-season testing. If you lock up, you do a little mistake, it’s nothing, but if you do it on Sunday, you lose a place or you have to box for a flat spot or something like that. It’s a much bigger problem.

I enjoy singing my songs in front of people.

I didn’t like the play, but then I saw it under adverse conditions – the curtain was up.