People of art should never get married and have children because it's a selfish experience.

Piano playing is a dying art. I love the fact that I can be one guy with one instrument evoking an emotional and musical experience.

Music is your own experience your own thoughts your wisdom. If you don't live it it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But man there's no boundary line to art.

What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something because of course art is about sharing. You wouldn't be an artist unless you wanted to share an experience a thought.

There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man beyond history and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit.

The educator must believe in the potential power of his pupil and he must employ all his art in seeking to bring his pupil to experience this power.

Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger of having gone through an experience all the way to the end where no one can go any further.

Art is not a handicraft it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.