A man is culpable in the eyes of society when he escapes from the jurisdiction of its mediocrity.

Music, which should pulsate with life, needs new means of expression, and science alone can infuse it with youthful vigor.

The beginning of art is not reason. It is the buried treasure of the unconscious...that unconscious which has more understanding than our lucidity.

Men set themselves a goal, and having attained it, are satisfied and grow paunches. In their complacency they forget that their only future is now death.

I was not influenced by composers as much as by natural objects and physical phenomena.

Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes.

A man is culpable in the eyes of society when he escapes from the jurisdiction of its mediocrity.