It is only as an aesthetic phenomenon that existence and the world are eternally justified.

I think in art, but especially in films, people are trying to confirm their own existences.

Thus the man who is responsive to artistic stimuli reacts to the reality of dreams as does the philosopher to the reality of existence; he observes closely, and he enjoys his observation: for it is out of these images that he interprets life, out of these processes that he trains himself for life.

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

At art school, a teacher said: 'The best paintings are when you get lost in a piece of work and start painting in a stream of consciousness.' I wanted to do music, not art, so started writing lyrics that way. The first song I wrote was called 'Ice Cream and Wafers.' The next was 'Holding Back the Years.'

A real work of art destroys, in the consciousness of the receiver, the separation between himself and the artist.