I have never seen faces, but because I have looked people in the eye, only their gazes.

The principal function of form is to advance our understanding. It is the organization of a piece which helps the listener to keep the idea in mind, to follow its development, its growth, its elaboration, its fate.

I owe very, very much to Mozart; and if one studies, for instance, the way in which I write for string quartet, then one cannot deny that I have learned this directly from Mozart. And I am proud of it!

My music is not modern, it is merely badly played

You cannot expect the Form before the Idea,For they will come into being together.

I am the slave of an internal power more powerful than my education.

If it is art, it is not for all, and if it is for all, it is not art.