Master technique and then forget about it and be natural.

I danced from the moment I could stand.

Play the last measure very softly.

To follow, without halt, one aim: There's the secret of success.

A true artist should have no secrets. On the stage, you must be able to transmit every emotion to the spectator.

It is by the steady elimination of everything which is ugly - thoughts and words no less than tangible objects - and by the substitution of things of true and lasting beauty that the whole progress of humanity proceeds.

Success depends in a very large measure upon individual initiative and exertion, and cannot be achieved except by a dint of hard work.